Finding videos with HTML5 (a theory?)

In a previous post I talked about a little about HTML5 and FLASH.  I mentioned that we will be moving to an HTML format in the next revision of our website and I wanted to address a little theory about finding our videos on the web once we convert.


The theory?  Finding our videos will be more awesome and maybe easier!


Great theory, I know, but here is why:


The two main authors of W3Cs HTML5 draft are, Ian Hickson of Google, Inc. and David Hyatt of Apple, Inc. (YEAH! An apple employee helped! But that is not important at the moment)


The really important thing about HTML5 and video, is that a Google employee is working on the draft.  We all know Google controls web search, but how do they search? With crazy algorithms that blow my mind... really though, they read the HTML of a site.


One of the only reasons you can find our site on Google is because we have registered with them.  Otherwise they wouldn't be able to find us all that well because our site is in FLASH.


Most sites existing now use FLASH to display video.  Google can't search FLASH, but Google can search HTML.  Enter HTML5 with VIDEO...  If all the sites used the video element in HTML5 then Google can most certainly find it.


Still with me?  The really awesome part is coming up!

Google owns Youtube. Fact. If you are a frequent visitor of youtube or just like trying the new bleeding edge tech online(like me) then you have probably run across the Labs portion of youtube.  In there you can find all the neat video projects they working on.  One project that is not listed yet is how they are scanning video and and transcribing the dialogue within.  Google's transcribing tech is nothing new but still awesome and could be used to turn dialogue into searchable HTML...


SO... in the near future you may be able to search for our videos using just a line of dialogue!  Not just our videos but ALL HTML5 videos! (but please mostly watch ours.)

Transcribing isn't even the half of it! I just don't know what the other half is yet...  there are endless posibilites.  What if google puts in some facial recognition to their searches?  Then you could find every video with a certain persons face! 



Hope you enjoyed.  If you have questions, concerns, or just rude comments please let me know!