Kev Price SEO

Back in August 2006 Google acquired Neven Vision, a company that produce object recognition technology.

Google announced the acquisition as a feature to be integrated into their Picasa image gallery tool at the time.

When it was announced rumors began that they would use the technology for facial recognition. They were encouraging people to upload photos of their face to their gtalk accounts as avatars which would tie a face to a any data they had on that account.

Whether true or not doesnt matter to me as much as being able to speculate on the possibilities it presents.

I do think it would be very useful for them at the moment if someone was to as to be removed or obscured from the Google street view!

I don’t think its a huge leap of the imagination to think that they could begin to spider video feeds using this technology, recognizing people, objects and written words as well as what is said, after all video is a series of static images with sound.

Imagine the SEO implications of video spidering! All of the SEOs out there studying where best to place keywords within their video, which objects in a video add relevance to a topic, how many seconds into the video is the optimal placement for the title.

Keyword stuffing by people leaping around in the background of video with placards filled with keywords, making sure that certain objects feature prominently in the video to get across to Google the theme.

I can imagine over optimized videos being hilarious with lighting being done in such a way to give everything clearly defined edges or SEOs going so far as to use cardboard cutouts that can be clearly recognized. or even wearing masks of certain people they are talking about.

It could get crazy out there, mind you this is the internet so videos like these most likely exist already.