Digital Home Thoughts: Startup Truveo Claims Best Video Search

"Internet start-up company Truveo today unveiled a beta version of its video search engine technology, claiming to offer more up-to-date and higher quality results than video search products offered by Google or Yahoo. Truveo says it has developed unique technology which enables its crawlers to locate and index video that other search engines miss, in part by analyzing the visual characteristics of Web pages. The company says even though its service has only recently been crawling the Internet for video, already it provides access to material that cannot be found through other search engines."

To summarize, Truveo's approach analyzes the visual appearance of a Web page, much the way a human visitor would, potentially enabling it to find video content which would be invisible to standard crawlers and then analyze contextual details and other information associated with the video to index it with a greater degree of accuracy. I have been doing research in context discovery and content extraction for several years and I think that this is an excellent approach. Try they search out here.