Tag: TRUVEO

Just a few months after relaunching Truveo as a video search engine (as opposed to a video sharing site), AOL is taking Truveo worldwide. Or at least adding localized versions for a number of countries including France, Germany, India, Japan, Korea, Spain, Tawain, and the UK. AOL, which owns both Truveo and this blog, plans to bring more regional versions online in the next few months. ...

A year and a half after snatching up video search engine Truveo, AOL (this blog's parent company) has relaunched the site. It's bigger, better, and easier to use. But it's also not exactly a Google/Youtube killer. Like the relaunched Google Video site, the new Truveo's not so much about letting users submit their own videos. Rather, Truveo gives you a central location to search for web videos. ...

The first two big web acquisitions of the year have been announced, and they're both media purchases. On Monday Yahoo! announced its acquisition of social playlist site WebJay, followed swiftly by AOL which bought video search site Truveo. Some are calling the latter a betrayal of Google, which recently bought 5% of AOL and which has a video search service of its own. [Via O'Reilly Radar and Jason ...