In the 2008 presidential election race in the United States, the prospective candidates made extensive use of YouTube to post video material. We developed a scalable system that transcribes this ma- terial and makes the content searchable (by indexing the meta-data and transcripts of the videos) and allows the user to navigate through the video material based on content. The system is available as an Google gadget as well as a Labs product (labs.google.com/gaudi). Given the large exposure, special emphasis was put on the scalability and reliability of the system. This paper describes the design and