Sifting Through Web Videos.(searching for objects and sounds on the Web...

The proliferation of video and audio on the Web is creating demand for ways to search that content and locate specific information quickly. Search and indexing technologies will be essential to the differentiation of Web video from broadcast television. Virage and C-SPAN are testing a video search engine, which will be part of C-SPAN's Campaign 2000 Web site. AltaVista has joined the two companies in providing searchable video recordings of President Clinton's State of the Union address and grand jury testimony in the impeachment fiasco. Search technology is currently limited to simple word