Wednesday, February 16, 2005

CSIRO's Firefox Plugin for Video Search

Australia's CSIRO has built a video search tool that betters Google's current beta attempt in that it actually searches through videos, as opposed to just searching a program's closed captioning text (aka subtitles) as Google does.

Annodex(tm), as the team at CSIRO have named their tool, provides a searcher with a detailed summary of the video content, an interactive list of video clips, and hyperlinks to additional material. Good stuff, by the sounds of it.

Unfortunately the official CSIRO website for their new tool is not working right this second, but keep watching it at www.annodex.net for more Annodex info, and look out for the Firefox plugin at the Mozilla Update site, which seems to be back in action now after a couple of month's hiatus.

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