• Mediaweek, Monday, January 9, 2006 10:45 AM

After weeks of industry rumors, Yahoo! CEO Terry Semel used the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to finally unveil his company's latest, highly anticipated search service, Yahoo! Go TV. The service features software that permits individuals to use their TV sets to easily watch videos and digital photos downloaded from the Internet. Google now has a similar search service available for its users. The importance of these new technologies has not been lost on the broadcast and cable industries, both of which are watching with enormous interest --and perhaps some dread--as Yahoo! and Google move with increasing speed and dexterity into the TV-content arena. Some speculate that this is the year that the Internet and television begin to converge in a meaningful way for consumers.

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