Google VideoGoogle has launched silently Google Video. Google Video enables you to search a growing archive of televised content – everything from sports to dinosaur documentaries to news shows.

Just type in your search term (for instance, ipod) or do a more advanced search (for instance, title:nightline) and Google Video will search the closed captioning text of all the programs in our archive for relevant results. Click on a program title on your results page and you can look through short snippets of the text along with still images from the show. Visit the "About this show" side panel to learn when this show will air next.

Right now Google's just testing this product, so you'll find programs only from a limited number of channels, which Google has been indexing since late December 2004. You can expect to see more and more content as Google continues to add new channels.

Example of video result page (click to enlarge):

Google Video Result Page

Example of video result preview (click to enlarge):

Google Video Result Preview