This Demo 2006 news comes from AOL, of all companies. (Conference presenters aren’t necessarily limited to startups. There were actually four public companies this year.) This post, however, is really about a hot company called Truveo, which AOL acquired last year. Founder Tim Tuttle told us that there are now some 20 billion video streams on the web. AOL launched its video search capability in June 2005 with 2.5 million searchable assets. In the fall of 2005, the company introduced DVD quality video search. But now, in about three weeks…[drum roll]…what you’ll be getting with AOL’s service is Truveo’s technology. It’s based on what’s called “visual crawling” and has been in development in a quiet corner of Silicon Valley for more than two years. Tuttle promised you’ll now be able to “find a lot more video.” He also said that, through an AOL partnership with Intel, you’ll even be able to watch it on your TV, not just your computer. “Great things are just around the corner,” he said. “We’re finally delivering on the promise of video search becoming as ubiquitous as web search.”
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