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Truveo Video Search Comes to SFGate.com, the San Francisco Bay Area.s Leading News and Information Web Site
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San Francisco, CA - January 15, 2009 - 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 200
million 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, including AOL Video, AOL Search, Brightcove, CBS RADIO.s sites, Clevver, CSTV, Excite, Flock, Infospace, Kosmix, Microsoft
Corporation, Pageflakes, PureVideo, Qwest, CNET.s Search.com, Sportingo, Sports Illustrated, Widgetbox and YourMinis, reaching an
audience of over 75 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.
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