Google Introduces Search Feature for Politician Channel on YouTube

YouTube has thousands of videos of candidates running for office. The YouTube “Politicians Channel” is at this link. On July 14, Google announced that it is launching the “Google Elections Video Search gadget”, which will use speech recognition technology to prepare the text of each of these videos. Then, the gadget will search the text of the speeches for content on a particular topic. Thanks to Ed Still for this news. The gadget doesn’t seem to be in operation yet, but is described at this link.


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