Truveo claims it is the best video search engine
24/09/2008
Video search engine Truveo's new study says it is the best at sourcing video content.
Video search engine Truveo's new study says it is the best at sourcing video content.
Truveo gives the most comprehensive search return for video content - according to the site itself.
The video search engine carried out a study to compare how many sites with video content competitor
engines linked to.
It took the top 100 Alexa-rated sites with video content and compared how many were covered by
individual search engines.
The research found that Truveo linked to 86 of those sites, while competitors like Blinkx covered 20 and
Google Video covered just three.
Pete Kocks, Truveo president and vice president of AOL, said: "Our crawlers are the best in the business
and that is what has allowed us to build an index of over 200 million videos."
Truveo said it had carried out the study itself as no independent testing organisation was currently
researching video search engines.
In order to ward off accusations of bias, the company said it was making its study methodology publicly
available.
Truveo was founded in 2004 and acquired by AOL in 2006.