SAN FRANCISCO, CA – The world’s leading search engine is getting into the personal video business. Google Video Search provides surfers with a tool for searching video content for relevant information, and the company announced Monday that it will soon allow individuals to submit their personal videos for indexing.”In the next few days, we’re actually going to start taking video submissions from people, and we’re not quite sure what we’re going to get, but we decided we’d try this innovative experiment,” said Google co-founder Larry Page at a conference in San Francisco on Monday.

Google expects that much of the video content it receives will come of the form of video blogs, or “vlogs.” Page is aware that the content of submitted videos might be an issue for Google.

“[There are] tons of issues, but we have found in experimenting not to try to have too many barriers,” said Page. “It’s hard to predict what will happen, but we have done this 10 times and we figure out ways to make it work.”

Google’s technology will allow surfers to search through the closed captioning text of the videos that make up the archive. The search results will include possibly relevant still images plus closed captioning text taken from videos based on the search query.

Mainstream news channels such as ABC, PBS, C-SPAN and Fox News signed on in January to provide video content channels for Google’s new service, which has been in tests since December of 2004.