Truveo Video Search Comes to SFGate.com, the San Francisco Bay Area’s Leading News and Information Web Site

Truveo announced that its industry-leading video search tool is being integrated throughout SFGate.com, the online home of the San Francisco Chronicle, providing contextually relevant videos and video search next to content on the site. SFGate.com currently uses Truveo in its Cars section, http://www.sfgate.com/autos/, and plans to integrate Truveo, http://www.truveo.com, on additional pages shortly.

SFGate.com is the leading news and information Web site for the San Francisco Bay Area, attracting more than 12 million unique visitors and 95 million page views a month. The site delivers up-to-the-minute news stories, in-depth special reports, local sports coverage, regional listings and entertainment coverage.

“We’re delighted that SFGate.com has taken advantage of our technologies to give their readers a great video search experience,” said Pete Kocks, President of Truveo and Vice President of AOL. “With users expecting a far richer experience on every site they visit, video has become a critical part of the news experience and is a great way to keep users engaged.”

The Truveo video search engine lets users search and browse through tens of millions of videos from thousands of sources across the Web. In addition to indexing user-generated video from popular video uploading sites such as YouTube and Dailymotion, Truveo also features a wide selection of high-quality, professionally produced video from many of the world’s major media brands. For example, Truveo’s index includes videos from ABC, BBC, CBS, CNBC, CNN, Disney, ESPN, FOX, Le Monde, MTV, NBC, NFL.com, Sky News and thousands more.

SFGate.com joins Truveo’s rapidly growing list of high-profile partners that include AOL Video, AOL Search, CBS RADIO, Microsoft Corporation, CNET’s Search.com and Sports Illustrated Vault.

About Truveo

Truveo is the most comprehensive search engine for video, making it possible for consumers to search and browse through over 300 million1 videos from thousands of sources across the Web. Truveo was founded by some of the industry’s leading experts in video search technology and has built one of the largest and most up-to-date indexes of high-quality video on the Web. As a result, Truveo enables users to find video that cannot be found in any other search engine. Truveo first launched its industry-leading search engine in 2005 and today, the Truveo search engine powers video search on some of the most popular destinations on the Web. These sites reach an audience of over 732 million users a month. Truveo’s critically-acclaimed flagship destination, www.truveo.com, has received widespread praise, establishing itself as the leader in the fast-growing video search market. For more information on Truveo, visit http://www.truveo.com.

1 Internal Truveo Data

2 comScore Media Metrix, Custom Report, November 2008

Contacts

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