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VentureBeat: Video search engine company, Truveo, sold — for $50 million!

  • ngkaboon · 3 years ago
    The technique sounds quite trivial and I am surprised if Google is not doing the same thing, "visually" examining the context of the video. In fact, I think Google might be one up, by inspecting the context of the links to the video page.

    Only goes to tell me that AOL does not have a clue when buying Internet companies.
  • Ed Dunn · 3 years ago
    First of all, congrads to Truveo. I know the Burlingame hustle oh too well and they deserve credit.

    I agree with the first person..AOL is stupid. The search technology of looking for keywords around video html markup is elementary, their business model was displaying Google Ads and considering the fact more video content is being standardized on Flash which has metadata, this was a sucker buy.

    Laugh all the way to the bank Truveo..all the way. Although I believe most Burlingame outfits pretty much become employees and get some stock options...
  • Irv · 3 years ago
    Please suggest a crawler I could use myself.

    Thanks, Irb