Video sites are the latest fad on the Internet and YouTube, Google Video and several others have tons of visitors and a mighty assortment of videos with all kinds of material. The video libraries of the Internet are constantly growing and it’s starting to become a pain finding the right video. Many video are uploaded without a decent description and with search engines of today it’s practically impossible to find the right one. This is where the search engine company Blinkx has stepped up. It has namely developed a search engine which search for videos, but not through the texts related to them but through texts and words uttered in the videos.
“Mr. Chandratillake’s solution does not reject any existing video search methods, but supplements them by transcribing the words uttered in a video, and searching them. This is an achievement: effective speech recognition is a “nontrivial problem,” in the language of computer scientists.”
Blinkx has created a new way of searching for videos on the Internet and even if it is a way better solution than most other there are some problems. The things said in a video doesn’t necessarily relate o the actual content of the video and it is therefore also talking with other companies about creating a search that is based on what is shown in the video. Blinkx has taken one big step toward a good search engine for videos.
