We found this at Redwood City Public Library's Liblog a while ago, and forgot to tell you about it. They quote a New York Times article, "Google and Yahoo Are Extending Search Ability to TV Programs" and explain, "The searching is done on text captured from the closed-captions used on many programs. Google's search will return transcripts from the show (with a still picture); Yahoo's will return 60-second clips."
Google's (still beta version) Video search is at http://video.google.com/. Yahoo's is already a tab on their main page. I tried some of my standard searches on both services, didn't find anything to speak of; they are still both building their databases. When asked, Yahoo cheerfully provided lots of sites for the video clip of the 1940 Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse. But we already knew that one was out there....
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