TV Guide offers online video search
TV Guide plans to help Internet users find premium video, just as it has done for TV viewers for more than for 50 years.
Next month, Gemstar-TV Guide International is expected to launch a test version of a Web video search tool, according to a company spokeswoman.
The new service on TVGuide.com is designed to help users find episodes of full-length TV shows and will scan about 54 Web sites, mainly from the major networks, portals and large media companies.
Among them are Oxygen, Comedy Central, BBC America, CBS, Disney Motion, E! Online, iTunes, Yahoo Movies, VH1 VSpot and HBO.
Users will be able to search for a particular network or celebrity or browse the top-viewed videos or TV shows. They will also be able to save videos.
TV Guide editors will also make recommendations and display the most popular videos.
The company is far behind Google, Blinkx, AOL and Yahoo, which have offered video search for a long time.
This story was first reported by the Associated Press.
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