For the past three years, it’s been the hidden search technology driving many of the video search sites on the internet. But now Truveo has decided to launch its brand independently and is claiming to be one of the largest video search engines on the web.

Founded in 2004, Truveo has provided video search technology to companies including AOL, Microsoft, CNET, Brightcove, Quest, Infospace and Excite. Through this network of sites, Truveo estimates it reaches an audience of over 40 million users per month.

In 2006, the company was acquired by AOL, which today unveiled the newly redesigned Truveo.com site – a site promoted to be a single place where users can find everything online video has to offer.

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GloobTV is now out of beta and promising to offer their users “only the best new videos”. These select videos will be chosen by their editors, with users invited to contribute in a variety of other ways.

Users can add comments, pictures and video responses. According to the site’s about page Gloob’s editors job will be relieving users from having to wade through “crap” videos.

According to Gloob, the San Francisco based media company differentiates itself by utilizing the human element in filtering video for users. Gloob’s team of 25 reporters review videos around the clock and recommend between 20 and 30 new videos per day.

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Blinkx, which claims to be the world’s largest video search engine, has extended its staff headcount to forty through the hire of several new executives, stating the hires will support new initiatives and business development.

Two of the new executives will focus on content acquisition: John Bryan, formerly of MediaZone.com, and Marco Nadotti, from Babelgum, will be charged with pursuing large content acquisition deals and signing media partnerships.

Gavin Morgan comes on board from Miva to drive Blinkx’s syndication strategy in Europe, whilst Onil Gunawardana has been appointed to develop the company’s new contextual video advertising platform, AdHoc.

The new hires come at a busy time for Blinkx – it’s recently announced several partnerships, including one with GeoBeats.

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MyVeZoom is an extension of the VeZoom video search engine with customizable options.

VeZoom continuously monitors over 18 million hours of online video featured in over 60 online channels. 

From the obvious channels like YouTube and Metacafe, to the more obscure, MyVeZoom scours the Web for relevant Professionally produced content.

The straightforward UI and comprehensive nature of myVeZoom is promising.

Drag-and-drop organization and other Web 2.0 tools make myVeZoom one of the cleanest video tool releases in some time. This early test of the main search utility and its aggregative extension reveals both the power and weaknesses of an innovative video service.

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Time for rest and recuperation is essential which is why it is important to avoid any unnecessary stress when you go on holiday.

There could be nothing worse than jetting off to what you are assured is a peaceful Mediterranean paradise only to find yourself neck deep in drunk revellers, building sites and stolen travellers checks (i.e. a club 18 to 30 holiday).

Never fear however as GeoBeats, the video travel guide guru has teamed up with the video search engine hyperlord, blinkx, to help arm you with some up-to-date concrete video evidence that your destination of choice doesn’t resemble the ninth circle of Hell.

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Yahoo! has just unveiled plans to cement its online video credentials with a service aimed at tackling the likes of the ubiquitous YouTube.

Yahoo’s general manager for video, Mike Folgner, has stated that music videos, movie trailers, television shows and sports highlights are among the features that will be available on the new site.

One of our strategies is to put video everywhere you are on the Internet. We’re going to build a much better destination for you to access all this different content.

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I was just looking around on the biased Google Video Search Engine to see what videos they had indexed from YouTube.

Look’s like the Google Video Safesearch is not working to well.

Nope that’s not someone’s armpit being poked by a sausage.

This was on the moderate safesearch (the standard) which should “filter explicit images”. This wasn’t an isolated incident - a few other searches found similar results. Looks like Google has some work to do.