Some believe that Google is really close toward possessing the technology that would allow them to transcribe videos and index the content on a highly scalable level. Right now, they are doing this with 2008 election coverage. Check this out. This is VERY exciting:
http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/017739.html
WebmasterWorld administrator, Tedster, started a thread at WebmasterWorld suggesting that Google may begin indexing audio files in the near future. Tedster linked to the recent news on Google announcing that they are “automatically” transcribing YouTube videos “from speech to text” and then indexing that content in a searchable format.
Personally, I think if they got that technology down, it would simply rock. But it would make much of the audio files, MP3s, videos and multimedia content all searchable.
Many operating systems have speech to text technology. They make software that tries to transcribe your voice as you speak to it. They make technology, OCR, that reads text as an image and translates it to machine readable text. None of this technology is perfect, or even close to it. Google has dabbled in all of this in the past and I am sure they continue to experiment with this now and in the future.
So keep watching the accuracy of search results such as filetype:mp3.
Not sure when this will happen. But, it WILL happen. Right now, it is too easy to game the video rankings. So, it is clear that Google would like to develop a system like this that actually provides legitimate rankings for video. So, take my advice … invest in video content.
Tags: Google, video, YouTube
