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Article: Seeking a Video-Search Leader.(TV Guide Online)
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- April 2, 2007
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By Todd Spangler
TV Guide Online Is Latest to Craft a Web-Clip Guide
At Google Video, the Web-search colossus provides super-fast results culled from a whopping 26.9 million clips -- and climbing.
Type in "Lost," and the first thing that turns up is a tidbit called "Nobody's Watching Lost " on YouTube, a 3-minute clip described thusly: "Happy Halloween! Actually, we ARE watching Lost . Here's another tribute to a show we love --"
Well, that might be someone's idea of the start to a fun evening. But some new entrants into Internet video search believe that existing models of finding TV content online don't work all that well.