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Putting Metadata In Video For Search Purposes Patented Microsoft Sued: related news

Russian search engine Yandex unveils online video search

Russian search engine group Yandex has launched the public beta of Yandex.Video. Service users can search and share videos clips online, as well as view the most popular videos. Yandex.Video currently searches about twenty video hosting services including youtube.com, rutube.ru, video.mail.ru, smotri.com and myvi.ru. The service's video search method is based on analysis of names, tags, descriptions and other video clip attributes. Search results are ranked according to user ratings. Yandex.Video continuously updates the most popular videos shown on its front page, as it receives information about new comments and new videos posted in blogs from Yandex's Blog Search service. Service users can upload an unlimited amount of video files and create their own favourite lists.

Putting Metadata In Video For Search Purposes? Patented! Microsoft Sued

The last time we wrote about a small company called Gotuit Media, it was in 2003, when the company was suing TiVo for an excessively broad patent about recording TV while playing back TV concurrently.

Putting Metadata In Video For Search Purposes? Patented! Microsoft Sued

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Microsoft buys semantic search engine start-up Powerset

Microsoft and Powerset confirmed a deal that had been rumored for a few days. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the purchase of Powerset by Microsoft does offer some interesting insight into how Microsoft plans to grow its search business. Powerset is a pioneer in semantic search. Semantic search attempts to understand the meaning of the words users enter into the search engine, rather than simply targeting keywords. According to a story from IDG News Service, Powerset is currently testing a semantic search engine, in part using technology licensed from Xerox's PARC subsidiary. That technology creates a semantic representation of Web pages by parsing each sentence and extracting its meaning.

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Search Engine Marketing - Search Engine Optimization is Important

Search engine marketing is the process of using search engine optimization to make sure that your webpage consistently is at the top of the heap when customers and client do an Internet search for terms that are related to your product or service. When search engines send out spiders or bots to collect information about different websites that is then used to decide which web pages show up first in search listings these spiders and bots are looking for search engine optimized content, or SEO content. SEO content drives search engine marketing by repeating certain keywords or key phrases a certain number of times.

Yahoo! rejected Microsoft bid for search business, due to exclusivity clause

Microsoft dropped bid for all of Yahoo! on 8 June and launched a bid of USD 1 billion for Yahoo!'s search business and a share of future search advertising revenue. This proposal also included an USD billion investment in Yahoo! but required Yahoo! to commit to a 10-year exclusive arrangement, according to a letter sent to Yahoo! stockholders by CEO Jerry Yang and Chairman Roy Bostock. The letter explains the reasons for Yahoo! to sign a four year non-exclusive deal with Google for online advertising services and to end the talks with Microsoft, as their search-only hybrid proposal may have been helpful to Microsoft. The board and its advisers also carefully studied the financial impact of Microsoft's proposal and concluded that it would have provided no meaningful improvement to the operating cash flow.

Microsoft buys Powerset, gets foot in semantic search door

While Google and Yahoo focus on indexing Flash sites, Microsoft has other search plans up its sleeve. As the rumors have foretold, Microsoft announced today that it has acquired Powerset and plans to integrate the company's search and natural language features into Live Search. The San Francisco-based company's employees will remain in place, but will become part of Microsoft's Search Relevance team.

Video: Search Giants to Rule Web Video

Traditional search engines like Google and Yahoo are poised to dominate the video search business because almost one-third of traffic to online video sites originates from search engines, Daisy Whitney reports in this week’s edition of the “New Media Minute.”

Prominent Search Authorities Tee'd Up for Full-Day Search Training at Search Engine Strategies (SES) San Jose 2008

Search marketers frustrated by the dearth of real hands-on education in navigating the ever-changing world of search and social media should look no further than the Search Engine Strategies (SES) San Jose Training Day, August 22, 2008. This day of intensive training in search engine marketing and search engine optimization (SEM/SEO) includes six highly informative sessions at the San Jose Marriott. The training immediately follows the SES San Jose Conference & Expo scheduled for August 18-21, 2008.

Free Search Engine Marketing tips for businesses by leading web design company i

Free Search Engine Marketing tips for businesses by leading web design company i - Kronikmedia, a leading independent website Design Company based in London have launched a new search engine marketing and Ecommerce blog that offers up to date search engine marketing advice to businesses small or large. The Search engine marketing blog is regularly updated with new articles and practical search engine marketing and ecommerce advice that can help businesses understand the core search engine marketing concepts and increase sales and lead for their website. Search engine marketing is un0doubtably the most cost effective form of marketing available for businesses and offers a high return on investment. The blog has been set up to promote better understanding of search engine marketing and ecommerce principles.

Social Search Engine Scour.com Launches

Scour.com launched as a "meta" social search engine, which encourages voting and commentary on search engine query results called from Google, Yahoo! and MSN. Scour differentiates itself from other social search, ratings, and community sites in that it lets users vote and comment on search results, provides privacy control, gives weight to preferred engines, and lets people redeem search points for VISA gift cards. Scour pulls search results from the top three search engines. From there it relies on feedback to make the results ever more relevant. After enough votes on results, a search result can rise or fall in ranking which will make listings across all the engines more relevant on Scour.

Microsoft: grokking search intent will help close Google gap

Microsoft believes that focusing on search intent will help it pull ahead in the race of the search engines, or at least give it a little boost. The company discussed some of its ideas for improving Live Search during a panel at the Search Engine Strategies conference in San Jose this week, and revealed that it has been looking at user behavior to see how it can better tune its search engine to people's individual needs.

Google Updates Search Appliance

Google announced a new version of the Google Search Appliance integrated hardware and software solution. In addition to capacity and performance improvements, the new Google Search Appliance offers improved search quality, enhanced personalization, security and language support. Features include: Indexes 10 million documents in a single appliance; Search across all enterprise content - Universal search capabilities for secure access to web servers, portals, file shares, databases, real-time business data, and enterprise content systems including EMC Documentum, IBM FileNet, OpenText Livelink, and Microsoft SharePoint; Personalization - New scoring policies allow administrators to adjust search results for different user groups, based on department or function; Advanced Biasing - Administrators can now bias results based on metadata; Alert

Bay Area Marketers Welcome Back Popular Search Engine Strategies (SES) San Jose 2008 Conference

In the hottest region for technical innovation, marketers converge this summer at the premier Search Engine Marketing Conference and Exposition Search Engine Strategies (SES) San Jose 2008. The premier search industry event runs August 18-21, 2008, at the San Jose Convention Center. The popular conference features over 70 panels and sessions on timely topics, including universal search, blended search, local search, video search engine marketing, social media optimization and more.

Bay Area Marketers Welcome Back Popular Search Engine Strategies (SES) San Jose 2008 Conference

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 7, 2008--In the hottest region for technical innovation, marketers converge this summer at the premier Search Engine Marketing Conference and Exposition Search Engine Strategies (SES) San Jose 2008. The premier search industry event runs August 18-21, 2008, at the San Jose Convention Center. The popular conference features over 70 panels and sessions on timely topics, including universal search, blended search, local search, video search engine marketing, social media optimization and more.

Microsoft Exec: Still Early in Search

SAN JOSE, CALIF. Speaking before hundreds of search marketing pros, Microsoft's Satya Nadella readily admitted Google is currently the gold standard in the market. Yet, like other Microsoft executives over the past two years, the svp of Microsoft's search, portal and advertising platform group vowed Microsoft would catch up.

Flash Search Being Enabled By Google, Yahoo; Images/Video Still Not Searchable

In a major step forward in search technology, Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) is working with Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) to make Flash files searchable in online search. The project will enable searches on Flash content to return text and links, which can then be indexed, and hence available in search results for the users. Content from a Flash application or even a game or advertisement will be available to search engines, reports InfoWorld. Pages containing a Flash .SWF file will be returned in a search. Google has already implemented this, while Yahoo, ever the laggard, will enable Flash search in a future version, whenever that comes out.

YAHOO SPURNS JOINT MICROSOFT-ICAHN BID TO REVAMP FIRM, ACQUIRE SEARCH BUSINESS

TEL AVIV (MarketWatch) -- Yahoo Inc. said late on Saturday that it rejected a restructuring proposal from Microsoft Corp. and the investor Carl Icahn, and the Sunnyvale, Calif., Internet-services giant called on Microsoft to bid for the whole company. Yahoo said the Microsoft-Icahn plan, which it said would turn Yahoo's search business over to the Redmond, Wash., software giant and the rest over to the New York investor, was presented as a take-it-or-leave it proposition. "This odd and opportunistic alliance of Microsoft and Carl Icahn has anything but the interests of Yahoo's stockholders in mind," Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock said in a statement. Yahoo said that while it rejected the restructuring, it offered two alternatives: "It repeated its offer to sell the entire company to Microsoft for at least" $33 a share, and it "offered to nego

Search Socially! -- Social Search Engine Scour.com Launches, Offers Incentives to Search, Vote, Comment and Refer

Blending the best of algorithmic and human powered search, Scour.com launched today as a meta social search engine which encourages voting and commentary on search engine query results called from Google, Yahoo! and MSN. Scour fosters community- building and enables discovery through user feedback, friends and groups while giving users control of the search parameters needed for accurate results based on their preferences.

Microsoft's Annual Report Reveals OSS Mistakes

mjasay writes "Microsoft's most recent annual report suggests that the company is increasingly coming to grips with open source, yet also seems determined to perpetuate myths about open source that poorly serve it and its shareholders. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has suggested before that 'free software means no free soda' for Microsoft employees; but this is perhaps the first time that Microsoft has managed to enshrine its ignorance in a public document. In the annual report, Microsoft makes two primary false claims about open source: 1) Open source companies don't invest in research and development and instead largely free-ride on Microsoft's patents and copyrights; and 2) Open source projects don't innovate and instead mimic Microsoft's products.

Microsoft and Apache - What's the Angle?

A week ago, we discussed Microsoft's contribution to the Apache Foundation. Now, Bruce Perens has written an analysis "exploring the new relationship of Microsoft and the Apache project, how it works as an anti-Linux move on Microsoft's part, and what some of the Open Sourcers are going to do about having Microsoft as a rather untrustworthy partner." In particular, he notes: "...Microsoft can still influence how things go from here on. If they have to live with open source, the Apache project is Microsoft's preferred direction. Apache doesn't use the dreaded GPL and its enforced sharing of source-code. Instead, the Apache license is practically a no-strings gift, with a weak provision against patent lawsuits as its most relevant term. Microsoft can take Apache software and embrace and enhance, providing their own versions of the project's

Microsoft to stream Netflix movies over Xbox 360

Los Angeles - Bringing the vision of the digital living room one step closer, Microsoft announced an alliance with Netflix Monday whereby the leading online video rental company will stream movies over the internet to the Xbox 360 video game console. Microsoft announced the move at the opening of the E3 video game convention in Los Angeles. The deal will allow owners of the Microsoft video game console to access 10,000 movies offered by Netflix - twice as many as Netflix previously offered over its internet streaming service to PCs.

Yahoo! Opens Up Search Technology Infras...

Yahoo! has introduced a new open Web services platform, Yahoo! Search BOSS (Build Your Own Search Service), which gives third parties access to Yahoo! Search Technology, including the ability to re-rank and control the presentation of Web search results, the company announced. Yahoo! Search BOSS, available now as an API in beta, enables developers and companies to build world-class custom search experiences and disrupt the search industry, the company said.

New Search Marketing Blog, SearchFuel, Gives Marketers an Alternative Place to Fuel up

ST. LOUIS, BUSINESS WIRE -- Marketers have a new place to fuel up and add mileage to their marketing programs. SearchFuel (www.searchfuel.com), a new blog centered around search marketing and its influence in the media landscape, launched today with the purpose of serving as a regular, conversational resource for traditional and digital advertisers, media buyers and search marketers by providing unique industry insight about the search landscape and fuel discussion and debate of factors affecting advertisers and the industry. The blog will feature search perspective from talent across Outrider and the agency divisions of GroupM Search, including Beyond Interaction Search, MEC Interaction and MindShare Search.


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