  The initial task that confronted extrasolar-planet transit surveys was to
monitor enough stars with sufficient photometric precision and complete phase
coverage. Numerous searches have been pursued over the last few years. Among
these projects are shallow, intermediate, and deep surveys of the Galactic
plane, and monitoring of open clusters, and a globular cluster. These projects
have all defeated the initial technical challenge, but a new obstacle has risen
in its place: Single-color photometric time series are not sufficient to
identify uniquely transiting planet systems, as eclipsing binary stars can
mimic the signal. Multicolor photometric time series and multi-epoch
spectroscopic monitoring are required to cull the list of candidates prior to
high-precision radial velocity monitoring. I also discuss the prospects for
detecting another transiting system among the planets found by the
radial-velocity method, as well as review the recent announcement of
OGLE-TR-56b, the first extrasolar planet detected by the transit method.
