TAMING THE WEB:

Clicker aims to be TV Guide for Internet shows (Ed Baig, 11/12/09, USA Today)

Vowing to be a TV Guide for all Internet television, Clicker launches publicly Thursday, following a 58-day invitation-only “beta” period.

Founder and CEO Jim Lanzone says Clicker has indexed over 40,000 full episodes from more than 1200 sources, including sites such as Hulu, in more than 1,200 categories. Its catalog also includes 30,000 movies from Netflix Instant Streaming and Amazon Video on Demand, as well as more than 50,000 music videos from over 20,000 artists. (You’ll be told if you have to pay to watch something.)

Clicker’s data includes programming that appears online from all the usual broadcast suspects (and many more), as well as broadcast-quality Web originals. Certain podcasts are also indexed -- lectures and academic panels at Stanford University, for instance -- but Clicker isn’t meant to find every last clip on YouTube. It also brings up only what it considers to be legal content.