TV Guide to Offer Web Video Search Tool

March 24, 2007 By GARY GENTILE, AP Business Writer TV Guide to Offer Web Video Search Tool (AP)

Richard Battista, Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc., chief executive, poses with work-in-progress display of the TV Guide Digital Media Web page at the company headquarters in Los Angeles Wednesday, March 21, 2007. Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc., which publishes TV Guide magazine, will soon launch a test version of an online video search tool to help viewers find clips and full episodes of the hundreds of TV shows now being posted on the Web.(AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

(AP) -- TV Guide, which has helped viewers navigate through thousands of TV shows for 53 years, now wants to do the same for Internet video. Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc. will launch a test version next month of an online video search tool that allows viewers to find clips and full episodes of TV shows now being posted on the Web. A formal launch is planned for September.

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