According to business online, Google (GOOG) is planning a new version of its search engine, specifically designed to be used on TV screens. Google executives say that it will rival traditional television.
Chief executive Eric Schmidt told The Business: “At the most people currently have access to only around 500 television channels,” said Schmidt. “They should have access to everything – that is where we are heading.”
As the move from the PC to television is being prepared, broadcasters and internet service providers are scrambling to create the equivalent of a TV guide, but in electronic form, which will allow users with broadband access to choose from the entire internet what they want to watch on television. Google is saying that they are the ones that can provide the best electronic program guide.
Schmidt added, “You have to look at what an electronic programme guide is. It is just a search engine and that is what Google does best.”
Tony Glover posted that "Attaching a Microsoft Media Center player or an Xbox console will enable consumers to use a digital television to browse the internet for whatever video content they wish. This will enable viewers to use Google to realise Schmidt’s vision of allowing viewers to use a television-enabled Google search engine to watch any film or programme they want via the internet."
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