A new Google tool actually lets you search videos for specific objects

Google's computer vision technology is now so good it's able to find specific objects within a video or group of videos.

During the company's Cloud Next event in San Francisco Wednesday, Google unveiled its new Cloud Video Intelligence API.  The tool, which is currently available to developers in a closed beta, analyzes videos to make their contents searchable.

With the tool, you can search one or more videos using keywords and get back a list of results showing you where in the video you can find the objects relevant to your search terms. You can see a bit of Google's demo of the software onstage at Cloud Next in the video below. Read more...