VentureBeat - Latest Comments in Video search engine company, Truveo, sold — for $50 million!

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

Irv — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 06:12:15 -0000

Please suggest a crawler I could use myself.

Thanks, Irb

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

Ed Dunn — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:16:35 -0000

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...

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

ngkaboon — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 10:56:53 -0000

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.