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nopinsight on Nov 19, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Automatic captions in YouTube

It's a win-win, both for consumers and Google.

Many non-native English speakers will understand videos better (and there are more of them than the natives) and Google gets to make more money from more relevant ads.

snprbob86 on Nov 19, 2009 [–]

Google can also produce far better Video search results.

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