Google to Create TV Program Search Engine by Milota Sidorova

Gossips in New York say that world number 1 search engine Google Inc and the U.S. Number 2 satellite TV operator Dish network Corp are testing new feature that enables program searching via TV the same way as it does on internet. The search service will work partly on Google's wireless operating system Android and TV set-top boxes. Program service will be accessible equally from TV sets as well as from internet. According unofficial information the feature will represent personalized searching environment for TV programs. Customer should enter key words or another input information and the list of results will be available as we know it from Youtube. Shortly it will be smar! t and interactive TV program 24 hours a day. Developing such feature makes sense in the times when most of TV channels have also theirs internet alternative. Not only that, most of TV makers are developing traditional TV sets with internet access. Both media are becoming inseparable. American TiVo Inc has been already competing the market with such product. Dish and its sister company EchoStar are another providers, but along with TiVo they run patent dispute over hybrid product. Google entered the business with Google Search Appliance in 2002, extending the portfolio with document search technology Mini in 2005. The list of product name its email account Gmail, photobanks, free websites, Youtube and many more. It also sells thematic packages for example as Google Apps Premier Edition – for business users in 2007. The platform Andorid is vivid rival to Windows or Apple's OS X.

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by Milota Sidorova for SigEx Ventures (http://sigexventures.com)

SigEx Ventures's matrix of properties are quickly becoming leaders in digital telebroadcasting, free content delivery allowing people to easily talk, view, upload and share through free online TV broadcasting, free unlimited global calls, video blogs and SMS. SigEx Ventures invests in projects deploying "free" to add-on royalty revenue models