Comments on: YouTube gadget soon scorned on Capitol Hill?

While the Politicians video search mechanism Google is rolling out may be a good first step toward making YouTube profitable, its potential in other applications is even more intriguing.

[Tui Pohutukawa]

"We'll be able to catch the lying bastards when they claim they never said what they really said."

Well said.

[dascha1]

But wait, what if she sings her praise like a canary?

[TomSteinberg]

Hi Charles,

We're a democracy non-profit in the UK who have solved this very hard video matching problem a rather different way - through ultra usable game-like crowd sourcing. Our gang have done 75% of all the speeches in the last year of Parliament in just a handful of weeks, that's over 30,00 clips of video matched to text!

www.theyworkforyou.com/video

How about some kudos for the micro open sourcers? :)

best,

Tom

[nutbags]

I also see how Google would be able to use this to catch illegal video content if they cross reference it with transcripts... maybe it would address Viacom's issues.

On the other hand, it would also be funny to see some poorly transcribed words come through.

[adsltan]

"we'll be able to catch the lying bastards who claim that they never said what they really said." - can hardly wait for this possibility - can be used globally in all countries with similar liars.