Tuesday, April 17, 2007
TV Guide Enters Video Search Competition
Gemstar-TV Guide now offers an online search tool that lets you search clips of TV shows as well as searching TV listings ala TiVo. While the site is limited to television (including entertainment news and reviews) and movies (theatrical and DVD), TV Guide will likely steal some thunder from Google Video and the other video search engines.TV Guide has been the authority in print almost since TV began, so they will bring an audience to the web. You can see where an actor is appearing on TV and in the movies, but you can't search on appearances in online clips (such as talk show appearances), which is a significant oversight. Being able to program your TiVo through the site is a huge advantage over other online TV Guides.
The site doesn't provide access to user-generated content which will alienate some viewers while allowing others to find what they want faster. TV Guide doesn't index TV or online news, which also limits its appeal.
By partnering with the TV networks, TV Guide has created a one-stop destination for finding professional TV and movie content that saves time by going to the individual networks' sites. It shouldn't be long before it becomes one of the most visited video search engine sites.
Source: MediaPost/
Posted By John Gartner at 05:32 PM
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