Digitalsmiths Launches VideoSense 2.0 Platform With Frame-By-Frame Video Search

Digitalsmiths , the video distribution and analysis platform that powers TheWB.com , TMZ , and a number of other popular sites, is rolling out a new product suite today dubbed VideoSense 2.0. The new suite includes a number of features that will make it more appealing to content owners looking to distribute video across the web, but the most interesting new feature for consumers will be the platform's revamped video search, which can best be described as a "Google for video". Granted, there already is a Google video search , but this goes well beyond that, allowing users to search for any actor, scene, or piece of dialog they'd like across shows in the Digitalsmiths library. Digitalsmiths has spent years building the technology to perform speech recognition and visually match actors' faces and environmental elements (it can tell if a scene is taking at a beach or on a mountainside), and it's quite impressive.