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Grayboxx releases national version of its local search engine

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Grayboxx, an online local search firm, announced that the company’s unique “neighbor-recommended” local search engine has concluded its national trial phase and is now available across the United States. Using its PreferenceScore technology, Grayboxx provides more than 185 million automated rankings and recommendations for local businesses in more than 4,000 yellow pages business categories. In addition to implicit neighbor recommendations and updates to the PreferenceScore algorithm, its national release will allow users to see reviews gathered from third-party sites.

The Grayboxx patent-pending PreferenceScore system uses aggregated, non-personally identifiable information about millions and millions of everyday interactions (purchases, reservations, etc.) to determine which businesses are “neighbor recommended.” Grayboxx works with a variety of third-party vendors to access this data, but it does not acquire, track or keep any personally identifiable information about its users.

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Originally posted on January 16, 2008 @ 1:06 pm

HealthCare.com, MediResource to distribute and license health content, directory and tools

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healthcare.pngHealthCare.com has reached an agreement with MediResource, creator and syndicator of interactive health content to healthcare companies, government websites, and online media sites, to jointly market and license their respective content libraries, directories, and tools as a bundled health offering to website publishers. Such a solution enables destination websites to create a fully-branded, out-of-the-box online health offering that combines medically-reviewed disease, condition and medication content, health and wellness tools, a healthcare provider directory and a health vertical search engine, all on an ad-supported basis.

Under the agreement HealthCare.com and MediResource will package their content and tools offering into an integrated, hosted health portal solution. HealthCare.com will contribute their fully- branded healthcare provider directory which is comprised of 1.7 million verified listings of health professionals, practices, facilities and services across 250+ health categories, along with its proprietary health vertical search engine. MediResource will contribute an offering which includes over 20,000 pages of consumer health content including a Disease and Medical Condition Library, Drug Library, Patient Support Groups Directory, Lab Tests and Procedures Database, Interactive Symptom Checker, Daily Health Tips, Health Articles, Disease and Condition Channels, Interactive Health Tools, Calculators and Risk Assessments. Furthermore, content and tools from the MediResource offering will be implemented as part of HealthCare.com consumer facing website.

Originally posted on January 16, 2008 @ 10:32 am

Truveo projects one billion searchable online videos by next year

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truveo.pngTruveo revealed that its index has now exceeded 100 million online videos. Based on current growth rates, Truveo expects the online video universe to reach one billion searchable videos by 2009.

“2007 was an amazing year for online video in terms of available content, viewership and industry interest. 2008 looks to be even stronger,” says Truveo CEO and co-founder Timothy Tuttle,. “Just a few years ago online video was a novelty but now it’s clear that 2007 was the year that online video moved into the mainstream. As we move to the era of one billion videos, search will be critical for anyone who wants to find something to watch.”

Originally posted on January 10, 2008 @ 1:27 pm

ClipBlast! to release API supporting OpenSocial

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clipblast.pngClipBlast!, the web-wide video search and navigation platform, will be releasing an OpenSocial API, enabling OpenSocial developers to integrate the ClipBlast! video search platform within their applications.

The ClipBlast! offerings can be completely integrated into the OpenSocial ecosystem, giving developers access to embed ClipBlast! video search into OpenSocial applications. ClipBlast! also plans to release OpenSocial applications of its own, to showcase ClipBlast! technology.

Originally posted on January 7, 2008 @ 10:32 am

JuiceCaster offers video search tool for mobile phones

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juicecaster.pngJuiceCaster has launched Mobile Video Search (MVS), a search application for accessing user-posted videos on wireless devices.

A free service, MVS lets anyone with a video-capable cell phone instantly watch desired videos on-demand by texting keywords to ‘84462’. The search tool then immediately sends a reply with links to the requested content. MVS works on over 95% of video-capable phones, ranging from high-end devices such as the iPhone, Blackberry, Treo and Windows Mobile devices to mass market phones such as the Motorola Razr family of handsets.

This gives individuals worldwide instant access to informative, entertaining, commercial or personal JuiceCaster videos, delivered directly to their cell phones. Business owners, college students, garage bands, travelers and aspiring artists can quickly and easily mobilize and share their content by creating a free JuiceCaster account, uploading videos and tagging them with search keywords.

Originally posted on January 7, 2008 @ 11:06 am