1. A method of carrying out a search of television data carried out in a television receiver device using a search engine, comprising: at a television receiver device, receiving a command from a television remote controller device that retrieves a video frame of metadata text associated with a television program; extracting selected portions of the metadata text from the video frame containing metadata text by optical character recognition (OCR) processing of the selected text from the video frame, the selected portions of the metadata text being selected based upon the receipt of navigation and selection commands from the television remote controller; loading the text extracted from the OCR processing as a search string into a browser connection to an Internet search engine; executing the search using the search engine operating on the search string; receiving search results from the search engine; and displaying the search results for viewing on a display associated with said television receiver device.