AOL Launches New Truveo.com Online Video Search Site.Truveo.com Gives Consumers a Comprehensive, Easy and Convenient One-Stop Site for Finding Professional and User-Generated Videos SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden -- 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. today announced that it has launched a new version of Truveo.com, a one-stop destination where consumers can find a wide range of video from across the Web - from user-generated video clips, to professionally produced video from leading media brands. Rebuilt from the ground up, the new site is based on the highly acclaimed Truveo[TM] video search technology that AOL acquired in 2006. The new Truveo.com is available beginning today at http://www.truveo.com. "Over the past year, there has been an explosion in the amount of professionally produced video that's available 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. "While today's popular video sharing sites offer a wide variety of user-generated video, they rarely give users the opportunity to find professional, mainstream video. The new Truveo.com solves this problem, so whether it's a dog riding a skateboard or the latest episode of The Daily Show, Truveo.com is the one-stop site for finding videos from across the Web." According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a recent study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, 57% of adult Internet users say they watch or download video content online and 74% of broadband users download or watch online video. This study also showed the popularity and preference for professional video. According to Pew, 62% of online video viewers say that their favorite videos are those that are "professionally produced."* The new Truveo.com enables users to easily search and browse through tens of millions of videos from thousands of sources across the Web. For users with a specific video in mind, Truveo's advanced video-specific algorithms help users quickly search and find exactly the video they want. Additionally, Truveo's search results are organized by category and by source so that users can quickly choose the video they want from the large number of videos that may match their query. In addition to powerful search capabilities, Truveo.com also provides a browse-and-discover experience. Users can browse video by a particular category -- such as news, sports, music and movies -- and find video available both for free and for sale. Users can also survey the Web's most popular videos as well as peruse pe·ruse tr.v. pe·rused, pe·rus·ing, pe·rus·es To read or examine, typically with great care. [Middle English perusen, to use up : Latin per-, per- popular TV shows, popular video sites (called channels), and favorite videos selected by other users. In light of the growing copyright concerns surrounding popular video sharing websites Video sharing refers to websites or software where a user can distribute their video clips. Some services may charge, but the bulk of them offer free services. Many services have options for private sharing and other publication options. , the new Truveo.com was designed specifically to enable users to find and watch video in a manner that will appeal to both content owners as well as end users. For many of the videos from leading media brands, users will be directed to the content owner's original website to view the video. This approach ensures that videos found on Truveo can be viewed in the highest quality with the experience intended by the original content owner. Other key features of the new Truveo.com enable users to: * Easily save and share links to their favorite videos; * Receive personalized video recommendations based on their preferences; * Configure custom video searches that can be placed into RSS (Really Simple Syndication) A syndication format that was developed by Netscape in 1999 and became very popular for aggregating updates to blogs and the news sites. RSS has also stood for "Rich Site Summary" and "RDF Site Summary. readers and personalized Web pages; * Access a set of open APIs that can be used to build video mashups; * Submit their own video into the Truveo search engine using mRSS feeds. In addition to powering Truveo.com, Truveo powers video search on some of the Web's most popular destinations including AOL[R] Video, AOL[R] Search, Microsoft Corporation (company) Microsoft Corporation - The biggest supplier of operating systems and other software for IBM PC compatibles. Software products include MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, Microsoft Access, LAN Manager, MS Client, SQL Server, Open Data Base Connectivity (ODBC), MS Mail, , CNET's Search.com, Qwest, Brightcove, Infospace, Excite, CSTV CSTV College Sports Television CSTV Copy Salary Table Version , Clevver, Flock, Metacrawler, Netvibes, Pageflakes, PureVideo, Sportingo, Widgetbox, YourMinis and hundreds of other sites. About Truveo Truveo is the search engine for video. Truveo was founded in 2004 by some of the industry's leading experts in video search technology. Over the past three years, Truveo has built one of the largest and most up-to-date indexes of high-quality video on the Web. As a result, Truveo enables users to find video that cannot be found in any other search engine. Truveo first launched its industry-leading search engine in the fall of 2005 and today, the Truveo search engine powers some of the most popular video destinations on the Web, reaching an audience of over 40 million users each month. For more information on Truveo, visit http://www.truveo.com. 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. Editor's Note: For b-roll and still images of the new Truveo.com website, log onto http://www.thenewsmarket.com/aol. Registration is free to the media. * Madden, Mary. Online Video. Pew Internet & American Life Project, July 25, 2007. http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Online_Video_2007.pdf. |
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