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Thursday, 4th March 2010

Three Google Items: Books Case; YouTube, and Real-Time Indexing

Three Items in this Post:

1) Will Google Soon Be Indexing the Web In Real-Time?
On the ReadWriteWeb blog, Marshall Kirkpatrick writes about Google "developing" a system that will allow content providers (big or small) to submit content to the Google database and make it searchable in a matter of seconds. Marshall also quotes Danny Sullivan saying all of this, "the next chapter," for Google. More about how it might work in Kirkpatrick's post.

2) The YouTube Blog posts that their auto-captioning technology that was released to a "small group of select partners" last November is now available to everyone.

Auto-captioning combines some of the speech-to-text algorithms found in Google's Voice Search to automatically generate video captions when requested by a viewer. The video owner can also download the auto-generated captions, improve them, and upload the new version. Viewers can even choose an option to translate those captions into any one of 50 different languages -- all in just a couple of clicks.

Today, we are opening up auto-captions to all YouTube users. There will even be a "request processing" button for un-captioned videos that any video owner can click on if they want to speed up the availability of auto-captions.

The remainder of the blog post includes several tips and caveats about using the technology and are well worth reading. It also points out an interesting YouTube fact that 20 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube every minute of the day.

3) The Amended Google Books Settlement is Still Exclusive by James Grimmelmann, New York Law School (via SSRN)

Professor Grimmelmann is also the writer/editor of The Laboratorium, a blog that has been focusing on the Google Books case. It's essential reading.

From the Abstract:

This brief essay argues that the proposed settlement in the Google Books case, although formally non-exclusive, would have the practical effect of giving Google an exclusive license to a large number of books. The settlement itself does not create mechanisms for Google's competitors to obtain licenses to orphan books and competitors are unlikely to be able to obtain similar settlements of their own. Recent amendments to the settlement do not change this conclusion.

Hat Tip: Peter S.


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