A panel on the video search and its future with entertainment content.
– Jennifer Feikin, Google, Director, Video: It really is about restrictions for now…if there were no rights and tech issues, the video search would be similar to the text search. The fact that it is video will become irrelevant, and it will just be another information piece.
In video, it is all about building relationships with content providers.
On whether people will upload copyrighted content: That’s one of the reasons why we’re NOT enabling playback…we’re looking at what kind of content people are uploading etc. There’s more people who have to get involved.
– Bradley Horowitz, Yahoo, Director of Media and Desktop Search: Even though DRM and others issues are important, solving those is really just the beginning. We think of video as much more than information: community, buzz, connection. We think of it as programming. The endgame is personal channels and share with the community.
– Bob Visse, Microsoft, MSN Search Director: Personal video: the video we have on MSN Spaces is an indicator of things to come.
– Suranga Chandratillake, blinkx, co-Founder: For personal video, the obvious parallel is podcasting. The explosive growth there shows that once bandwidth issues go away, video will become ascendant. The trick for us is to index and package that…
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