PureVideo Networks Unveils PUREVIDEO SEARCH, The Web's First Meta Search Engine for Video.- PureVideo Networks Reveals Its First Web Utility to the Public - EL SEGUNDO El Segundo (ĕl sēgŭn`dō), industrial city (1990 pop. 15,223), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1917. Its products include navigation and computer systems, aircraft parts, office machines, telephone apparatus, and , Calif. -- PureVideo Networks, operator of popular video sites StupidVideos.com (comedy) and GrindTV.com (action sports), today unveiled the Company's first utility, called PureVideo Search (www.purevideo.com). Still in beta, PureVideo Search is the Internet's first meta search engine for video, combining the accuracy of a crawl-based search with the timeliness of a feed-based search, and returning the most comprehensive and relevant results from the entire Web. PureVideo Networks' proprietary analysis determines rankings, displaying each result with an associated thumbnail image and a link to view the video at the respective publisher site. In addition, users of PureVideo Search have access to more than 35 charts presenting the most popular videos on the top sites, concerning music, sports, comedy, viral videos, entertainment, and news. These sites include MySpace, Rolling Stone rolling stone Noun a restless or wandering person , 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. Music, ESPN ESPN Entertainment and Sports Programming Network , Fox Sports, Comedy Central, YouTube, Break.com, 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. , BusinessWeek, and others. The charts provide users with comprehensive coverage on hot topics and the chance for serendipitous ser·en·dip·i·ty n. pl. ser·en·dip·i·ties 1. The faculty of making fortunate discoveries by accident. 2. The fact or occurrence of such discoveries. 3. An instance of making such a discovery. discovery. "We quickly learned that users would devour de·vour tr.v. de·voured, de·vour·ing, de·vours 1. To eat up greedily. See Synonyms at eat. 2. To destroy, consume, or waste: Flames devoured the structure in minutes. and create more video content than any one site could categorize or publish," said Greg Morrow, President and Co-founder of PureVideo Networks. "Existing options for discovering video or searching for specific footage are simply not that good. We've taken the best ideas of Web search coupled with the best ideas we've learned as a video publisher, to create this very user-friendly search engine." Part of a wider strategy to diversify the parent company's offering in video, PureVideo Search represents just one of many new ventures PureVideo Networks is considering for the future. From Erik Hawkins, 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 PureVideo Networks, "Our strategy has been to leverage the best of two emerging online video business models - video utility and video publishing. Utilities, especially free ones, are powerful traffic aggregators, while published and programmed media destinations retain consumers and generate revenue. By combining the two, we've opened the gateway for traffic while maintaining our ability to offer value to our audience and our big brand advertising partners." Both GrindTV.com and StupidVideos.com will take advantage of the PureVideo Search engine to help power broader web search returns for their combined six million unique users. PureVideo Search will also provide PureVideo Networks with important trend data about broadband video consumption. This reporting will help drive future strategic thinking around content, product, and business development, as well as investment in future content verticals and utilities. About PureVideo Networks: Based in El Segundo, CA, PureVideo Networks is a leading publisher of user-generated and original content, dedicated to the promotion of compelling video and the people who produce it. Funded by Softbank Capital SOFTBANK Capital is a venture capital group in the United States. See also
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