Last friday I had a Lecture about Microsoft Enterprise Search and digital television at PUC-RJ, and I got very excited. Not about the technology they use, but about how they use it.
Microsoft is working on a project that mixes the capacity of digital television to interact with the consumer, with web search. Yeah search!
The project consists of using a crawler to get information that's inside the closed caption.
Why trying to get information in a audio track if you could get in a Closed Caption text?
So, they developed an interactive system capable of showing to the consumer a lot of search possibilities, from Images to Wikipedia information and Amazon shopping. The demo showed at the lecture, gave me a very good impression of what they came for. Very intuitive and simple they are trying to let the user have control of the TV with the search features on a simple remote control pointed to a PC ( looks like a TV box) capable of obtaining the TV signal and covering with a wave of interaction.
Unfortunately, I don't have so much information because the lecture was very short and they talked more about Newscrawler and Text-mining than the project itself.
Anyway, if I find more information I will post here!
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