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Consumers across the web have eagerly anticipated a video search engine that offers relevant, up-to-the-minute, premium video results.


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KEVIN CONROY Then they're able to cover a wider landscape on the search engine results page.
AARON WITTERSHEIM AOL continues to prove the strength of its video capabilities with the record-breaking streaming vid...
CARLOS SILVA By allowing consumers to wirelessly surf the Web, personalize their PSP and access and share new aud...
ANDREW HOUSE By allowing consumers to wirelessly surf the Web, personalize their PSP and access and share new aud...
ANDREW HOUSE Video is hard to discover on the Internet. Web pages are self-describing. Video is opaque; it is a b...
BRADLEY HOROWITZ It is a fun way to promote Yahoo Video Search and acknowledge amateur videophiles.
KATHRYN KELLY It is a fun way to promote Yahoo Video Search and acknowledge amateur videophiles,
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GARY STEIN Relevance is a search engine's holy grail. People want results that are closely connected to the...
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KEN CASSAR For Web search the system downloads the top few pages unique to each country's results.
MARK MEISS Comcast Video Mail offers our customers a powerful and poignant way to communicate how and when they...
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LAURA BEHRENS Everyone and his Big Brother wants to log your browsing habits, the better to build a profile of who...
BARTON GELLMAN I love video games. When I was growing up, video games were very important to me.
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CYRIAC ROEDING Being web video 'experts'/'pioneers,' whatever you may want to call us, has us alway...
BENNY FINE The DTV rolls up everything you need to find video channels, subscribe to channels, download video a...
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IAN SCHAFER With the increasing number of Web sites utilizing broadband, we felt the time was right to launch st...
CHARLIE YOUNG There is no question that music continues to play a pivotal role in video games and video games cont...
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MIKE B. SLONE I probably would produce a little four-minute video mailer explaining exactly what happened and expr...
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SALLY DAUB Consumers are now faced with countless video channels and more and more places to tune in, including...
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AI WEIWEI The video game culture was an important thing to keep alive in the film because we're in a new e...
VIN DIESEL The kind of environment that we developed Google in, the reason that we were able to develop a searc...
SERGEY BRIN Interactive entertainment is going through a dynamic period, ... Video and PC games are becoming ubi...
DOUGLAS LOWENSTEIN Like Web search, our goal is to create services that satisfy the information needs for consumers, wh...
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JOEL EDGERTON I can get my voicemail transcribed and sent to me as e-mail. I want to be able to have my address bo...
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AMOS IP I grew up with video games and animation.
JAMES CLAR By having the video approach, if you miss a session you can take the video home to keep up with the ...
JAN PETERSON I hope to have the video by the weekend, ... We'll see.
BOB WATSON From today onwards, in China Yahoo means a search engine and a search engine
means Yahoo,
JACK MA Whether for entertainment, business or personal communications, video is becoming a crucial applicat...
STEVE ALEXANDER Whether for entertainment, business or personal communications, video is becoming a crucial applicat...
STEVE ALEXANDER Video games offer violent messages, and even the sports video games include taunting and teasing.
GEOFFREY CANADA WorldGate offers interactive set-top-box applications. Its customers want to interact with the Web a...
MITCHELL BAKER Video games and YouTube.com are creatively booming, even though Web design, as demonstrated by the u...
CAMILLE PAGLIA Better late than never. The decision sends a powerful signal to government at all levels that effort...
DOUG LOWENSTEIN The so-called alleged 'art' of the video - well, the video has killed the radio star, but th...
JOHN LYDON Samsung continues to develop the premium mobile handsets that give consumers the ultimate multimedia...
KITAE LEE I think in upcoming campaigns - local campaigns, even national campaigns - the Web is going to be us...
BRUCE ELDER People who compose music for video need the best resolution video footage to give them the sense of ...
IAN CALDERON People who compose music for video need the best resolution video footage to give them the sense of ...
IAN CALDERON For a product that just launched I'm extremely impressed. Tying it into the analysis, that's the key...
BRYAN EISENBERG We ended up going [overseas] and just getting too wasted to make a video.
PAUL HAWLEY More and more consumers are choosing what messages to receive with video- on-demand and opt-in email...
ROGER ADAMS Access to video streaming rights with Universal underscores our goal as a company to provide quality...
JOHN ANTIOCO I'm real proud of this video. It's the third video I've made, and I think I felt really comfortable ...
MIRANDA LAMBERT I hope that people like 14-year-old Troye are going to find this video.
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TROYE SIVAN ACT! Premium for Web offers a highly favorable total cost of ownership that is driving strong market...
JOE BERGERA Incidentally, our railroad facilities are under video surveillance by the federal police. However, t...
OTTO SCHILY I didn't get to play many video games when I was growing up.
ANA DE ARMAS We realized we don't have access to the video tape, so there's a possibility that the suspect left w...
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DAVID POGUE The Queens of the Stone Age have teamed up with multimedia wizardbrain Liam Lynch to make the video ...
JOSH HOMME With this agreement, we will continue expanding the quality of our entertainment offerings and meet ...
CLIFF PLUMER Although a lot of consumers don't even know this technology exists yet, we can place high-quality vi...
DAN KELLEY Up until now, the biggest question in society about video games has been what to do about violent ga...
SHIGERU MIYAMOTO Just like the notion of "Internet natives", who have never known a world without Internet access, we...
ALEXEI MAXIM RUSSELL There's more flexibility in the cartoon world than there is in video games. In video games, if I...
JENNIFER HALE Flash Video made platform sites like YouTube possible as well, and helped kick-start the online vide...
BURNIE BURNS I don't just post a video and then get offline. After uploading, I love to respond to comments, ...
BETHANY MOTA Billions of hours of video data are created every week, and security organizations have struggled wi...
KARTHIK NAGARAJAN Conveniently, that video is nowhere to be found.
JOEL PEREZ I'm a video game buff.
SHAWN ASHMORE 1394's ability to deliver audio and video over coax provides equipment makers, cable operators, and ...
JAMES SNIDER The video tells a very simple story and a very real story. It's a story of a woman who loses her hus...
TOM MORELLO The simple conclusion you can draw is that the tape and video camera had nothing to do with the acci...
FRANK SPINNER The video and the pictures don't lie and we take both still pictures and a video available for indiv...
ANDREW VELASQUEZ A number of technologies have been developed, most of which relate back to the core communications s...
JASON HILLARY They're transporting bandwidth in an Ethernet frame over a lambda, over a wavelength, and then dropp...
STEVE RAGO Video is growing very quickly on Facebook. A lot of people compare that to YouTube. I think that kin...
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Yet now and then your men...
JONATHAN SWIFT She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitch folk.
JONATHAN SWIFT One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of t...
JONATHAN RABAN I will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has miscarried did no more contrib...
JONATHAN SWIFT It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: a...
JONATHAN SWIFT Come, agree, the law's costly.
JONATHAN SWIFT There's none so blind as they that won't see.
JONATHAN SWIFT Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own; wh...
JONATHAN SWIFT Brutes find out where their talents lie;
A bear will not attempt to fly,
A foundered horse w...
JONATHAN SWIFT Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserte...
JONATHAN RABAN But when a Man
JONATHAN SWIFT Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.
JONATHAN SWIFT There are two sorts of hypocrites; ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external r...
JONATHAN EDWARDS Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
JONATHAN EDWARDS I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words ...
JONATHAN SWIFT Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
JONATHAN SWIFT Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth,...
JONATHAN SWIFT I wont quarrel with my bread and butter.
JONATHAN SWIFT I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
JONATHAN SWIFT