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Truveo.com releases major website upgrade

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Video search engine Truveo has launched a major update to its website, aiming to improve its performance and make it more useful to consumers.

Here are some of the changes made to Truveo’s website:

• Faster viewing of videos
• Improved display of related videos
• Expanded and easier video sharing
• Simplified ratings
• Cleaner look and feel

In addition, all of the Truveo sites, 17 in all, now use its localized ranking algorithms that vary the order of search results to deliver the most relevant results to each country’s Truveo users.

Doesn’t feel like a major upgrade to me.

Originally posted on June 12, 2008 @ 2:53 pm

Mobissimo opens Recommendation Box in France, Italy, and Spain

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Following its release of Recommendation Box (RecBox) in the U.S., travel search engine Mobissimo has made the new travel planning feature available on its local web sites in France, Italy, and Spain.

With RecBox, Mobissimo can suggest even cheaper ticket options for the leisure traveller willing to switch dates or consider alternate destinations. For business travellers, Mobissimo’s RecBox shows the cheapest non-stop and business class fares. Mobissimo’s RecBox also displays train fares such as Eurostar and Rail Europe for many European destinations—and updates dynamically according to the user’s query, making travel search quick, easy and comprehensive.

With a single click, Mobissimo searches and compares over 200 travel sites in real time. Mobissimo’s search capabilities, seven foreign language sites, unmatched coverage of low-cost airlines, widest choice of hotels in every star category have made it the uncontested leader in online travel search.

This is what we need at this time with soaring gas prices.

Originally posted on June 11, 2008 @ 10:14 am

Find Any Online Video With Yidio

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Culling from over 200 millions videos scattered across the Web, find the vids you want based on topic, category, or source with Yidio. Whether you’re searching for a full-length television show or a clip from last night’s NBA final, Yidio is constantly being updated. The search is powered by Truveo.

Yidio features the ability to automatically detect your geographic location, providing local videos, including news and weather. Your location can also be changed manually.  For some reason, Yidio thought I was from Lake Jackson, TX.  Easily corrected, yet random.

Users can also earn money via AdSense by building customized playlists with videos of their choice.

If video is not your thing, Yidio has also made 3,400 arcade games available for free.  There is also a community aspect that enables Yidio users to chat with one another. Currently, the forums are a ghost town.

Originally posted on June 4, 2008 @ 12:39 pm

MyBlogLog Adds ‘Friender’ Search

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Straight from my inbox…

Feature Alert! Find others you may know who are already kickin’ it on MyBlogLog.  Friender searches your friend lists across the web to suggest new contacts.

http://mybloglog.com/user/friender

– The MyBlogLog crew

The system was able to find services where I used the same name as my Yahoo ID. (del.icio.us, FriendFeed, Pownce, tumblr and YouTube). My username for everything happens to be unique, but be aware that the system can pull profiles that are not really yours.

If you happen not to have any friends on these services (you loner!), you can use the MyBlogLog invite that automatically appears.

Originally posted on May 15, 2008 @ 2:33 pm