AOL Launches Indian Language Portals, International Truveo Sites, Continuing Its Global Expansion Effort.AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. .in Content Available in Hindi and Tamil Languages; Truveo's Video Search Engine A video search engine is a web-based search engine which crawls the web for video content. Some video search engines parse externally hosted content while others allow content to be uploaded and hosted on their own servers. Opens in Eight Countries in Europe and Asia DELHI, India & DULLES, Va. -- AOL today announced the next steps in its ambitious global expansion effort with the launch of new local language versions of the AOL India portal, http://www.aol.in, and the launch of Truveo's popular video search engine serving eight countries, including India. "India is a very important market for AOL, and these announcements show our commitment to serving online consumers here with a robust portal and industry leading video search tools," said Ron Grant Ron Grant is the name of:
AOL.in is launching content channels in the Hindi and Tamil languages, improving the breadth of AOL's offerings at a time when the online audience in India is skyrocketing. The number of Internet users in urban India has grown by 28% in the past year, and about 60% of all active online Indians (30 million) prefer to read in local Indian languages.* The Hindi and Tamil language portals will have language sections in News, Cinema and Astrology. Building on the success of its industry-leading video search engine, Truveo, http://www.truveo.com, has announced plans to expand its rapidly growing service into several major markets for online video worldwide. The Truveo video search engine lets users search and browse through tens of millions of videos from thousands of sources across the Web, and reaches more than 40 million users a month in the U.S.** As the first step of this international expansion, today Truveo is unveiling video search sites for France, Germany, India, Japan, Korea, Spain, Taiwan, and the United Kingdom. In India, for example, users will be able to search relevant videos which are popular across categories such as Cricket, Films, Music, News, and more. Over the next two months, Truveo will build on this expansion with the launch of video search sites in additional countries including Australia, Brazil, Italy, Mexico, The Netherlands, Russia and Turkey. "The recent explosion of online video is a worldwide phenomenon, and all over the world, users and major media companies are putting video content on the Web," said Timothy Tuttle, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and Co-Founder of Truveo and Senior Vice President of AOL Video. "Truveo's mission is to index and organize all of it so users can easily find the video they want - wherever they are in the world." About AOL AOL[R] is a global Web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. company that operates some of the most popular Web destinations, offers a comprehensive suite of free software and services, runs one of the country's largest Internet access businesses, and provides a full set of advertising solutions. A majority-owned subsidiary majority-owned subsidiary A firm in which more than 50% of outstanding voting stock is owned by the parent company. of Time Warner Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :TWX (TeletypeWriter eXchange Service) A U.S. and Canadian dial-up communications service that became part of Telex. In 1971, the Bell System sold TWX to Western Union. TWX transmitted 5-bit Murray code or 7-bit ASCII code at up to 150 bps. See Telex. ), AOL LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control is based in Dulles, Virginia. AOL and its subsidiaries also have operations in Europe, Canada and Asia. Learn more at AOL.com. * Internet and Mobile Association of India ** comScore Media Metrix, May 2007 custom report |
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