November 12, 2008

TroopTube?

I had no idea the Department of Defense put restrictions on their international servers, though I suppose it makes sense, especially with their reasoning of bandwidth issues. And now they've made up their own video site...TroopTube. And it may actually be technologically advancing:

"But the startup's real forte is making sure searches on the site turn up the best video results. Delve's system turns a video's sound into a text transcript. It pares unimportant words like "this" and "that," then compares what's left against a massive database of words commonly uttered in proximity to each other, collected from crawling hundreds of millions of Web pages.
The result: Even if speech recognition software trips on the one word someone is searching for, there's a good chance Delve can still deliver relevant results."


...I'm a federal employee, paid by the DoD...and I access youtube on my computer! Don't tell anyone

1 comment:

  1. I can think of nothing in existence that is better described by the term "bittersweet" as kick-ass technology ... developed by the government.

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