Hulu Labs have added another feature to keep Hulu in the headlines, the new captions search feature will make it easier for Hulu watchers to find scenes from any streaming tv show onn the site.

The new Captions Search option will allow viewers to look for certain keywords within the text and transcript of videos on the site that have been closed captioned, this way you are able to identify which episode and specific scene of a show features the keywords they selected. For a quick preview of the search result, users can hover their mouse cursors over the image displays to see a short segment of video play in the thumbnail.

According to Eugene Wai, Hulu’s VP of product, on the Hulu blog, Caption Search also has a bonus feature: a visual graph of user interest through the span of a captioned video. Called the heat map, this feature can be used as a navigational tool (used to jump to a particular captioned section in the video), or to find particularly popular segments within a video.

After searching cc, the results are displayed as thumbnails which can then be selected be selected.

An interesting part of Captions Search is the linear heat map that shows what users are interested in when watching a video. So it can be used to select only those parts which you are interested in watching. By clicking the blue lines in the map one can directly go to those sections which are of interest.

Its a neat idea and you can be sure every other site will soon follow suite.

Related posts:

1. Youtube Add Auto Captions Letting You Read Videos
2. Hulu Adds New Advanced Search Feature
3. Hulu Gets Tagged To Help You Find TV Content Quickly
4. As Comcast Deal Looms Is Hulu Living On Borrowed Time?