Google is planning the summer launch of a video search engine for web video, according to CNET News … What makes this different from all other Google search engines? In the short term, users will be able to preview brief clips on the Google site before being sent to the originating site — the video equivalent, it sounds like, of looking at photos/headlines/blurbs on Google News. That last has Google being sued by AFP and others.
The new video service would complement Google’s first video search offering, which allows users to search closed-caption text from various shows. Eventually, Google plans to offer a premium payment service for full video and is talking to “top-tier” content providers.
Google isn’t confirming the report or the timing but admitted a new service was on the way. “All those details are still being worked out,” CNET News was told. While AOL is cracking through the walled garden, CNET says AOL is trying to build one for premium video that would allow ad sales.
Related: @ Digital Media Summit: Jennifer Feikin, Google, Director, Video
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– NCTA: Google Goes Into Personal Video: Breaking
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