Wednesday, January 11, 2006

AOL purchases Truveo

Video search company to AOL

DULLES, Virginia – Tuesday, January 10th, 2006 - AOL has closed a deal to purchase Truveo, a video search company, to provide better video search features on AOL.com, which recently launched a In2TV with companies like Warner Bros., which is a video service that will offer thousands of vintage TV episodes from old favorites. Truveo uses a technology called Visual Crawling, which automatically discovers video files and related info on web pages.
Links:
Truveo Press Release Past SMM Posts: Dec 2, 2005 - Video Search, Nov 16, 2005 – AOL’s content deal with Warner Bros., Nov 1, 2005 - TVs Online Future

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