Like all things google and cool, Google Video Search is in beta testing. Google Video Search is a search engine indexing closed-caption data along with the occasional screen-capture. Please note the contrast with Yahoo Video Search, which attempts to index video in the same way that google indexes images. Confused yet? If not, i could tell you that in the future, Google Video Search may link to the actual video media too.
Currently, it is only indexing a handful of stations. The most interesting seem to be PBS, Fox News, and C-Span uno y dos.
Searching for profanity may lead to the amusing transcripts of our elected representatives.
And A query for Global Warming definitely amused me by providing the silly words of Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla., chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee). In almost the same breath he discredits scientists as fear-mongering hoaxsters and applauds the scientific merits of Michael Crichton.
And the Fox News angle: "Next on Special Report --- What do the South asian tsunami and heavy Rain, snow and mudslides on the West coast have to do with global warming?" Here is a guy that will let you rest assured that we have nothing to worry about.
Google Video Search opens up the ridiculousness that is pulp news and politics to a much wider audience. Whoopeee!
Be sure to check back in a few months where there is more than a couple weeks of indexed content.