A report from ChinaTechNews says that Chinese search engine Baidu is recruiting technical staff, “to research and develop a new search tool for indexing millions of hours of movies.”
The news brief does not speculate on how Baidu might use this technology.
In 2004 Google acquired a minority interest in Baidu and as News.com reported less than a a month ago, Google is also developing multimedia search technology.
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Google replaced YouTube's keyword tool with Display Planner's AdWords video keyword suggestions on September 1, requiring users to access an AdWords account.
With 100 hours of content uploaded every minute to YouTube, gaining a high number of video views isn't easy. But it's not impossible with the right plan. Here are a few optimization steps you can take to help your video get found, viewed and shared.