VIdeo search company SnapStream this week unveiled its new search tool, TV Trends. The new TV Trends utility tallies and graphs mentions of any term uttered on national U.S. television. TV Trends users can enter up to five keywords, and gets back a graph showing you the relative frequency of mentions of those words on [...]

Media Post’s Search Insider blog had an interesting piece yesterday about “lost buzzwords” of the search marketing industry. Columnist Steve Baldwin, attending the Search Engine Strategies NY conference, was looking back at conference agendas from years past, sifting through the hot topics to see whether any of the issues were of any consequence today. It’s [...]

Ad Age has an interesting article today that looks at how big media companies are putting more and more pressure on Google to give them priority treatment -  above bloggers, microbloggers, podcasters and other indie media creators – in search results: Many publishers resent the criteria Google uses to pick top results, starting with the [...]

Blog search widget Lijit has launched a new Content Networks service to let content publishers band together and create a network. Lijit is an interesting and useful search tool in that, when installed on your website, readers can search not just for relevant blog posts, but also for other related things you’ve bookmarked, put on [...]

Video search engine company Blinkx today announced the launch of “an Enhanced Metadata Enrichment solution for publishers” of online video. There were lots of big, Web 2.0 press release vocabulary words to plow through (if I ever see another announcement with the word “monetize” repeated so many times, I will have to retreat to a [...]

Podcast network Wizzard Media announced today that they have archived over 118 million words using their proprietary “admatch” technology process. Of those, they have identified more than 10,000 words as keywords with potential significance to prospective advertisers. The database of keywords was populated by processing over 800,000 hours of audio and video programming available on [...]

Fusa Capital, a media company that owns and operates a network of search engine websites, has launched the latest entrant into the podcast search engine and directory melee, Podanza.com. Podanza bills itself as a podcast search engine and directory which aggregates free audio and video podcasts from over 5,000 international producers. When searching for podcasts, [...]

blinkx, a leading video search engine, today unveiled an updated site featuring “video walls”, a new interface for Internet video that combines the ‘sit back and watch’ element of traditional television with the interactive experience of searching and watching video online. Users will also be able to embed topical video walls in to Web pages [...]

Blinkx, a developer of video search technology, and Microsoft have inked a deal to use Blinkx techology to enable video searches at MSN and Live.com. “We will be the single biggest video search engine on the Web,” said Suranga Chandratillake, Blinkx co-founder and chief technology officer. Blinkx’s technology already powers video search on a variety [...]