10. A method carried out in a digital television device of carrying out a search using a search engine, comprising: at the digital television device, instructing a digital television access device to send a frame of video containing television program metadata; receiving instructions from a user via a television remote controller that selects text by selecting a bitmapped region of a display of the video frame; extracting selected portions of metadata text from the video frame 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; the digital television device loading the text extracted from the OCR processing as a search string into a browser connection to an Internet a 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 digital television device.
10. A method carried out in a digital television device of carrying out a search using a search engine, comprising: at the digital television device, instructing a digital television access device to send a frame of video containing television program metadata; receiving instructions from a user via a television remote controller that selects text by selecting a bitmapped region of a display of the video frame; extracting selected portions of metadata text from the video frame 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; the digital television device loading the text extracted from the OCR processing as a search string into a browser connection to an Internet a 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 digital television device. 12. The method according to claim 10 , wherein the selected text is identified by the location of the bitmapped region, and wherein the identified text is retrieved from a storage location storing text that was previously OCR processed.