Or perhaps you want to check where a political candidate stands on a particular issue. More intriguing are the possibilities for using these kinds of capabilities to present news. Some Web services are already presenting archived video content. Sources include certain archived newscasts as well as sports, business, and entertainment content. Its Campaign 2000 Video Search Engine has a collection of candidate campaign speeches, debates, press conferences, fund raisers, and other C-SPAN appearances.
Users can type keywords to search by candidate, party, issue, or location.
They can then compare what a candidate says in one speech about a topic with what he said about the same topic to a different audience at a different location. Virage, perhaps the leading developer of search and logging software, sees many more possibilities ahead. It will drive the development of new advertising and commerce models related to video. Now, with minimal effort, stations can simultaneously broadcast their news through conventional means and redistribute a broadcast, in whole or in part, via the Web. However, watching video via a slow modem could soon become as obsolete as the afternoon newspaper.