Robin Blandford [ ByteSurgery.com ]

20/01/06 My questions to Bradley Horowitz of Yahoo

I recently submitted questions to Tom Raftery’s Pod Leaders show to put to Bradley Horowitz of Yahoo. Bradley is a senior player in Yahoo! heading up Technology Development within Yahoo’s Search and Marketplace Group.

I took the opportunity to ask:

At present you index & search text very well and now the beginnings of good video search are emerging with on-screen ocr, close captions, speech recognition and iconography/iconology, shot/frame/scene boundaries, colour averaging etc…

At the same time, the human interaction with video has been a problem where the result set is hard to browse to see ‘quickly’ to judge if a result is relevant without actually watching the clip. Has Yahoo! anything up its sleeve to address this?

and…

Yahoo! seem to have allot going on in the Mobile world, with much more expensive cell data rates in Europe than abroad (€26 average for 4MB in Ireland! Source: Sunday Independent), is this going to put a stub on the introduction of Yahoo! Mobile products on this side of the pond?

You can download the show (8.4MB mp3) direct from PodLeaders.com and see that Bradley attempts to answer both questions (starting at 22 mins : 04 secs). While things look good on the video browsing side, he seemed a little unsure of the mobile question.

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