Google just recently announced Google TV. What is Google TV? This was posted on the Googleblog to offer some explanation.
“Google TV is a new experience for television that combines the TV that you already know with the freedom and power of the Internet. With Google Chrome built in, you can access all of your favorite websites and easily move between television and the web. This opens up your TV from a few hundred channels to millions of channels of entertainment across TV and the web. Your television is also no longer confined to showing just video. With the entire Internet in your living room, your TV becomes more than a TV — it can be a photo slideshow viewer, a gaming console, a music player and much more.
Google TV uses search to give you an easy and fast way to navigate to television channels, websites, apps, shows and movies. For example, already know the channel or program you want to watch? Just type in the name and you’re there. Want to check out that funny YouTube video on your 48” flat screen? It’s just a quick search away. If you know what you want to watch, but you’re not sure where to find it, just type in what you’re looking for and Google TV will help you find it on the web or on one of your many TV channels. If you’d rather browse than search, you can use your standard program guide, your DVR or the Google TV home screen, which provides quick access to all of your favorite entertainment so you’re always within reach of the content you love most.
Because Google TV is built on open platforms like Android and Google Chrome, these features are just a fraction of what Google TV can do.”
Should Google TV take off as a product of Google, here are a few things to consider.
Optimizing video content is going to be more important than ever. Not just optimizing the content itself, in terms of quality, but making your videos visible in search results in Google and YouTube. This is one area where whenever possible I try to get local business owners to create or optimize already created videos that can be ranked for local search.
Consider how much people watch their TVs. Now Google is right there, accessible from their TV remote. If you thought Google had a great deal of market share before, imagine how many more searches Google would get from the TV set, if this thing really takes off.
As Google TV was only announced Thursday, we really don’t know the full effect it will have on the industry, or on search, but it has the potential to be a huge deal for online businesses of all sizes. A game changer in a variety of capacities and something early adopters will definitely benefit from.
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Google TV is amazing, especially with the Logitech Revue. I like how you can surf and watch TV. The DVR integration works great. Type in what you want and the results pull up for the internet and TV. DISH equipment is the only equipment that has the full feature of the Logitech.
Google tv is really going to do a magic in television industry. Just think about the fully intractable TV. The future of the television with this kind of technologies are really interesting.
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