Truveo

Infobox Dotcom company
company_name = Truveo, Inc.
company_
company_type = Subsidiary of AOL
foundation = 2004
founder = Timothy Tuttle
Adam Beguelin
location_city = San Francisco, CA
location_country = US
url = [http://www.truveo.com www.truveo.com]
website_type = Video search engine
language = Multilingual
registration = optional
launch_date = 2005
current_status = Active

Truveo is a search engine for Web video operated by Truveo, Inc., which based in San Francisco, California. Truveo was founded in 2004 by Timothy Tuttle and Adam Beguelin. [http://www.truveo.com/about.php About Truveo] , by Truveo, Inc., retrieved on March 25, 2008.] Truveo launched its first commercial video search service in September 2005. [http://www.techcrunch.com/2005/09/21/truveo-video-search/ Truveo - Video Search] , by Michael Arrington, TechCrunch, September 21, 2005.] Truveo was acquired by AOL in January 2006. [http://www.news.com/AOL-acquires-video-search-engine-Truveo/2100-1030_3-6025142.html?tag=item AOL Acquired Video Search Engine Truveo] , by Greg Sandoval, CNet News.com, January 10, 2006.] The name Truveo is a combination of the modern French verb "trouver" (meaning "to find") and the latin term video (meaning "I see").

In addition to operating its own search engine at truveo.com, Truveo powers video search on hundreds [http://www.beet.tv/2007/08/awesome-aols-tr.html Awesome: AOL's Truveo Launches New Video Destination Page for "All the Video on the Web"] , by Andy Plesser, Beet.TV, August 16, 2007.] of websites including AOL Video, AOL Search, Microsoft websites, Sports Illustrated, Brightcove, CBS Radio websites, Qwest, CNET Search.com, CSTV, Excite, Flock, Infospace, Kosmix, Netvibes, Pageflakes, Widgetbox, and others. [http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/news/tvstations/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003678356 CBS Radio Pacts With AOL's Truveo] , by Katy Bachman, Mediaweek, November 28, 2007.] [http://searchengineland.com/070620-054808.php AOL's Truveo Builds Video Search Network With 40 Million Users] , by Greg Sterling, Search Engine Land, June 20, 2007.] [http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/03/22/truveo-unlocks-sports-videos-from-si-vault Truveo Unlocks Sports Videos From SI Vault] , by David Utter, WebProNews, March 22, 2008.]

Truveo claims to be one of the largest and most widely used video search engines, indexing over 100 million videos and reaching 50 million unique visitors every month across all websites it powers. [http://searchengineland.com/080104-091036.php Truveo Index Hits 100 Million Videos] , by Greg Sterling, Search Engine Land, January 4, 2008.] [http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/01/03/truveo-aims-for-a-billion-indexed-videos Truveo Aims for A Billion Indexed Videos] , by David Utter, WebProNews, January 3, 2008.] [http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/124/aols-greatest-hits.html AOL's Greatest Hits] , by Kate Rockwood, Fast Company, April 2008.] As of March, 2008, the Alexa traffic ranking for the truveo.com website alone was about 600. [http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/truveo.com truveo.com - Traffic Details from Alexa] , Alexa, retrieved on March 25, 2008.]

As a Web-wide video search engine, Truveo competes with Google Video, Yahoo! Video, and Blinkx among others. Truveo's differentiation lies in its advanced web crawling technology, which it claims can find more videos and better metadata than conventional web crawlers for video.

History

* "Spring 2004": Truveo was founded by Timothy Tuttle and Adam Beguelin.
* "September 2005": Truveo launches the first version of its Web-wide video search engine.
* "January 2006": Truveo is acquired by AOL.
* "Spring 2006": Truveo powers video search on AOL websites including AOL Video and AOL Search. [http://money.cnn.com/2006/02/20/news/companies/aol_newservices/index.htm AOL Set to Roll Out New Services] , CNN Money, February 20, 2006.]
* "September 2006": Truveo powers video search on Microsoft websites. [http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3623401 Microsoft Upgrades Live Search Offerings] , by Chris Sherman, Search Engine Warch, September 12, 2006.]
* "September 2006": Truveo launches Developer Program and offers open APIs to developers worldwide. [http://www.news.com/2100-1032_3-6116730.html AOL Opens Video Search Engine to Developers] , by Carline McCarthy, CNet News.com, September 18, 2006.]
* "June 2007": Truveo reaches nearly 40 million monthly unique visitors and is adopted by hundreds of new partners. [http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/19/truveo-growing-50-per-month-says-video-search-becoming-more-important/ Truveo Growing 50% Per Month, Says Video Search Becoming More Important] , by Michael Arrington, TechCrunch, June 19, 2007.]
* "August 2007": Truveo relaunches the truveo.com website. [http://www.informationweek.com/software/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201800863&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_News AOL Relaunches Truveo Video Search Site] , by K.C. Jones, InformationWeek, August 17, 2007.] [http://solution.allthingsd.com/20070822/truveo-video-search-is-well-worth-patience/ Truveo Video Search Is Well Worth Patience] , by Katherine Boehret, The Wall Street Journal, August 22, 2007.] [http://blogs.pcworld.com/techlog/archives/005164.html Truveo: A Better Way to Find Video] , by Harry McCracken, PC World, August 16, 2007.]
* "Fall 2007": Truveo expands internationally into 16 countries. [http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/10/31/AOL-takes-Truveo-video-search-worldwide_1.html AOL Takes Truveo Video Search Worldwide] , by Jeremy Kirk, InfoWorld, October 31, 2007.] [http://searchengineland.com/071211-153711.php Video Search Engine Truveo Expands To More Countries] , by Greg Sterling, Search Engine Land, December 11, 2007.]
* "January 2008": Truveo grows to reach 50 million monthly unique visitors and expands index beyond 100 million videos.
* "June 2008": Truveo launches its new website.

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References

External links

* [http://www.truveo.com Truveo Video Search Engine]
* [http://developer.truveo.com Truveo Developer Center]
* [http://www.truveo.com/Video-Search-Keynote-at-iHollywood-by-Tim-Tuttle/id/3645822454 Understanding Modern Video Search Engines] iHollywood Forum Keynote Presentation by Timothy Tuttle, CEO & Founder of Truveo, July 2007.