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With a clientele of “a number of three-letter agencies,” Virage is poised to capitalize on their video indexing and searching technology. They wouldn’t mind if their products were also popularized in the public sector. Imagine being able to search television programming for keywords, or videotaped conference proceedings for relevant topics. I would be surprised if Google soon added a “TV/Radio” tab. At the very least it would be great to have automatically generated transcripts of specific programs that could then be keyword searched like any text document. Imagine having all the information broadcast on NPR shows also available for searching.

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