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Truveo continues global expansion, adds 6 more international partners

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truveo.jpgTruveo is continuing its international expansion with the addition of international partners from China, Brazil, India, Turkey and the United Kingdom who have integrated the Truveo video search engine onto their websites. Traffic to Truveo’s websites expanded dramatically after it launched 15 international sites late last year.

The Truveo video search engine is available through Truveo websites as well as through partners that use Truveo’s open API to provide video search functions on third-party sites. The new international partners range from video sharing and social networking sites to Web and video portals. They include: Apnicommunity, Izlesene, OneIndia, PerfSpot, WeShow, and 6park

Originally posted on February 21, 2008 @ 10:04 am

Hoobly changes way people use online classifieds

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Hoobly announced its release of Radius Search, a unique complement to Hoobly’s existing city, state, national and international views, that gives users a new way to search classifieds. With Hoobly’s Radius Search, Internet shoppers can choose any city and zoom in or out, displaying ads within 5 to 500 miles of their chosen location. Hoobly.com is the first online classified site to give consumers the freedom to cross city, state and country lines to more easily find the items they are looking to buy.

More than 500,000 consumers have already turned to Hoobly to buy, sell and rent items and services. Hoobly enables consumers to search across 135,000 cities in 212 countries. A report by Pew Internet Research ranked Hoobly.com as one of the ten most popular local online classified sites.

Originally posted on February 15, 2008 @ 6:13 pm

ClipBlast! inks partnership with TWERQ

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ClipBlast! has partnered with TWERQ, an innovative startup with a new approach to consolidating and streamlining the search process.

Under the agreement, ClipBlast! will be the exclusive video search platform for TWERQ. With the accent on speed and efficiency, TWERQ supports multiple simultaneous searches – as many as 10 to 15, or more – encompassing video, text, RSS feeds, images and more. With its “Tabbed Search,” TWERQ dramatically reduces the time associated with traditional navigation, in the browser and the search engine, by eliminating the need to refine key words. Users can then select the best results from among the various search streams TWERQ returns.

Originally posted on February 15, 2008 @ 1:36 pm

Velingo releases Content Recommendations for Search

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Velingo Ltd., provider of Targeted Content Recommendation solutions for online services, has announced that its Spotlight technology is now available both as a Firefox add-on and as a widget for any search engine.

Spotlight is based on collecting vast amounts of data– such as users’ behavior and user-generated content– analyzing it, and building global knowledge to provide optimized and personalized recommendations for each customer and service. The patent-pending technology exposes users to relevant content, building loyalty while increasing providers’ revenues.

Unlike other social search systems that rely on manual voting and tagging by users, Spotlight builds massive knowledge base – transparently and automatically, without involving users in the process. Spotlight for Firefox is compatible with the three major search engines: Google, Yahoo and Live. By using Spotlight recommendations, users can easily expand or narrow their searches, for a better search experience.

In addition to Spotlight for Firefox, Velingo also released a web-based code generator wizard that helps providers embed Spotlight into their search pages. Code generation for a search engine takes only a few minutes, after which, all that is required is to paste the code inside the search page.

Originally posted on February 12, 2008 @ 7:00 pm

blinkx partners with HowTo.tv to bring video tips and advice from experts

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blinkx inked a partnership with HowTo.tv. Under the terms of the agreement, blinkx will host, transcribe and index video content from HowTo.tv. blinkx will also place contextually relevant advertising against the footage, and will share resulting advertising revenue with HowTo.tv.

HowTo.tv is designed to provide users with a quick and easy way to access handy tips from top TV experts, whenever and wherever needed. Hundreds of hours of instructional video content, ranging from perfecting your golf swing to finishing a tiling project, are available to help users expand on their interests and “how to” aspirations.

Originally posted on January 31, 2008 @ 12:00 am