ClipBlast! Video Search Engine Launches with Industry's First Video Search Toolbar; Pioneering Company's Debut at 'Video on the Net' Conference Gives Users Fast, Free Way to Find Video Clips From Anywhere on Web.BOSTON -- ClipBlast! (www.clipblast.com), a pioneering video search technology, today introduced the industry's first online video search toolbar A row or column of on-screen buttons used to activate functions in the application. Many toolbars are customizable, letting you add and delete buttons as required. Toolbars may be fixed in position or may float, which means they can be dragged to a more convenient location in the and formally emerged from an 18-month beta period. The company made its debut at the Fall 2006 Video on the Net conference, here through September 14. ClipBlast's patent-pending technology gives users the ability to search for video clips from across the entire web -- a capability that even search-engine stalwarts like Google and MSN (1) (MicroSoft Network) A family of Internet-based services from Microsoft, which includes a search engine, e-mail (Hotmail), instant messaging (Windows Live Messaging) and a general-purpose portal with news, information and shopping (MSN Directory). do not provide. Consumers and companies alike can easily add ClipBlast!'s unique toolbar (www.clipblast.com/toolsSearch.php) to their web sites and blogs, by simply copying and pasting HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. code. "ClipBlast! is to video search what Google once was to static-page search," said Gary Baker Gary Baker is a former NASCAR driver. He made one Winston Cup start at Talladega Superspeedway in 1980. He started 15th and finished 22nd, earning $3,440. He was driving the #4 Waylon Jennings Chevrolet fielded by G.C. Spencer. In 2007, he purchased the Busch Series team Brewco Motorsports. , ClipBlast! founder and 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. . "Today, users are mostly forced to search for video within the walls of a specific site. We knock down those walls and give users freedom to find and access relevant video clips -- whether the content was posted to YouTube, CNN CNN or Cable News Network Subsidiary company of Turner Broadcasting Systems. It was created by Ted Turner in 1980 to present 24-hour live news broadcasts, using satellites to transmit reports from news bureaus around the world. or some quality video in between." Now that 75 percent of U.S. households have broadband, video sharing See video sharing site. has emerged as the web's killer app A software application that is exceptionally useful or exciting. Killer apps are innovative and often represent the first of a new breed, and they are extremely successful. For example, in the late 1970s, the VisiCalc spreadsheet was the killer app for the Apple II, providing reason . YouTube is now the 10th most trafficked site on the web, and even once-static properties like blogs, newsletters and informational websites are increasingly adding video. Video search, on the other hand, is still at the starting gate starting gate n. Sports 1. A series of stalls with interconnected doors that open simultaneously at the beginning of a race. 2. , with no defined market leaders. While video sharing sites A Web site that lets people upload and share their video clips to the public at large or to invited guests. Acquired by Google in 2006, YouTube became the most popular video sharing site on the Web. See YouTube. largely center around entertainment, video search delivers freedom to access multimedia information as well as be entertained. "Users are getting accustomed to viewing video on the Internet," said Baker. "In no time at all, they're going to expect to find video content the same way they find other information -- through search. ClipBlast! is ready to meet this demand." ClipBlast! has spent the last two years quietly cementing its front-runner status in the emerging video search market by indexing millions of video clips from across the web. The company's patent-pending technology crawls the web in search of video, then categorizes video files, web pages and feeds so that the most relevant clips can be served up in real-time, on demand. Users can search, save and share video clips with friends, family and community. The MyClipBlast! personalization tool takes video online a step further, enabling users to request in advance that video clips on certain subjects be emailed whenever they become available. A baseball fan can, for example, enter "NY Yankees" as a search term to receive real-time email links to all related footage. For site owners, ClipBlast! offers back-end video search technology that organizes and monetizes video libraries. Like Google and other traditional search engines, ClipBlast! helps provide content owners and advertisers with significant revenue opportunities by delivering active, targeted video-viewing audiences. About ClipBlast! Founded in 2004, ClipBlast! provides pioneering video search that uses patent-pending technology to continuously update the largest index of video content from across the Internet. ClipBlast!'s fast, easy interface gives users instant access to millions of quality, highly relevant, targeted clips from the world's major media brands, independent producers and individuals -- clips that inform, enlighten, inspire and entertain. The company is based in Agoura Hills, Calif. To learn more, visit http://www.clipblast.com. |
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