Google and the Dish Network are implementing Google’s Web search experience through a Google Android set-top box. Users’ search queries bring back both TV content and YouTube video content. IDC analyst Hadley Reynolds says the test runs only on Android-powered set-top boxes, for users able to use a keyboard and TV remote control to enter queries. Richard Doherty, research director for the Envisioneering Group, tells eWEEK he believes Google has at least three strategies for melding the TV with the Web. Read on to learn about them.
– Google and the Dish Network are implementing Google’s Web search experience via
a Google Android set-top box, through which users’ search
queries bring back both TV content and YouTube video content, an IDC
analyst told eWEEK.
The Wall Street Journal said Google is testing its search software o…