Google, the most popular search engine, has offered a service that searches television transcripts and provides links to video stills and text. The new service offered by Yahoo, the second-most-used search engine, lets users search for and play back video files found on the Web.

According to Chicago Sun-Times and other press releases, Yahoo, Google and Microsoft's MSN are racing to add more features to their search engines. Searches for video content such as news clips, movie trailers and music videos may increase as more consumers sign up for fast Internet connections.

"I think it's going to be very important," said Danny Sullivan, editor of SearchEngineWatch.com, a Web site that tracks the Internet-search industry. "There's still a ways to go in determining the kinds of content that people want."

Yahoo has offered a prototype of its service since Dec. 14 on a preview section of its site, spokeswoman Stephanie Ichinose said Monday. Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Yahoo on Monday began offering a prototype of the video-search function on its main page.
Yahoo uses its search technology to trawl the Web for video content, Ichinose said. In addition, the company has signed an agreement with Fairfield, Conn.-based TV Eyes, which will provide video content for certain searches. Small- and medium-size content providers can also supply content to Yahoo, Ichinose said.

The video-search function unveiled by Google, based in Mountain View, Calif., lets users search content from TV networks including PBS, C-Span, Fox News Channel and the NBA.

The service guides users to the point in a program where the search phrase was spoken and can display up to five still video images or five short text segments from the closed captioning of each program.

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