A Front Row Seat For Google TV

Google's foray into the television industry has been talked about since the Big G launched video search last year, and subsequently began working with TiVo last April. And now a recent Google job posting, several interesting domain registrations, and the GoogleNet buzz, which will allow pinpoint ad targeting, are evidencing a buildup to the next generation of television. It's not just Google, but Yahoo!, MSN, AOL, and most likely some incarnation of Fox that will move this revolution. Yahoo! has already moved into Nathan Weinberg points us to Adam Lasnik's quick-draw GoogleNet is searching for a Google TV product manager responsible for enhancing "users' Television viewing experience." This is not surprising as it is exciting; everyone's been waiting with bated breath. "I've been waiting to see some movement on this for a while, ever since the Sergey Brin paper on TV search," says Weinberg. At the beginning of this year,