VideoSurf Press
New York Times - December 5, 2008
"Mr. McQuivey of Forrester says he thinks VideoSurf’s technology might have arrived at an opportune time."
Silicon Valley Business Journal - December 5, 2008
"Move over, text-search technology"
Wall Street Journal - November 19, 2008
"VideoSurf is one of those technologies that make you wonder why someone didn't think of it sooner"
Wall Street Journal - October 30, 2008
"VideoSurf Inc. is analyzing the actual visual content of videos using technology known as "computer vision algorithms," which produces more relevant search results"
PC Magzine - October 16, 2008
"VideoSurf is a compelling way of doing advanced searches for videos across multiple sources"
Search Engine Land - October 15, 2008
"It’s still just as good (if not better) than it was when I saw the private beta. If you’re looking for a good alternative to the video search services you’re currently using, click on over to VideoSurf now and give it a try"
Fortune - September 18, 2008
“VideoSurf does the heavy lifting for web viewers with algorithms that
identify people and backgrounds in videos and then converts them into thumbnail
frames that summarize sections of the video.”
SearchEngineWatch - September 11, 2008
“For the sake brevity, I’ll just talk about the best one I saw -- San Mateo, Calif based video search engine VideoSurf.”
MarketWatch - September 11, 2008
“One startup that got a lot of attention on Wednesday was a company that developed a search engine to search video called VideoSurf of San Mateo, Calif., and backed by former vice president Al Gore and Joel Hyatt, the co-founders of Current Media. “
redOrbit - September 11, 2008
“VideoSurf’s ‘computer vision’ is very distinctive when compared to other media search engines like YouTube, Blinkx and EveryZing.”
CNET - September 11, 2008
“VideoSurf – Breakthrough video search engine that can identify people.
Why we like it: With the amount of video content on the Web expanding rapidly,
we need a Google for video that doesn't just search tags, titles, and captions.
VideoSurf actually gets into the files to recognize faces.”
Los Angeles Times - September 10, 2008
“VideoSurf argues that relying on text tags to determine the content of
videos is flawed. Instead, it offers a visual search engine that can peek
inside the video frame by frame so it can return more relevant results."
"This is the first time to my knowledge that a company has offered the ability
to recognize specific people and organize video according to the presence of
people in the video," Forrester analyst James McQuivey said. "There are so many
possible applications for this. It has the potential to be very influential."
Search Engine Land - September 10, 2008
“I'll echo the headline for this post: VideoSurf is one of the most innovative, radically different approaches to video search (or any kind of search for that matter) that I've ever seen.”
VideoSurf - September 10, 2008
"Using a combination of new computer vision and fast computation
techniques, VideoSurf has taught computers to "see" inside videos to
understand and analyze the content, in order to deliver more relevant
results."
CNET - September 10, 2008
“There are established companies in the [video] space, like the U.K.-based Blinkx, but none of them has captured the market share that video search potentially could. Enter VideoSurf, a company launching later on Wednesday at the TechCrunch50 conference that's been getting a choice spot in the tech-blogger limelight thanks to a Los Angeles Times preview."
Washington Post - September 10, 2008
“Video search is an unsolved problem. VideoSurf applies hardcore computervision technology to this problem and finds relevant results beyond what may already be available to text-based search methods.”
Associated Press - September 10, 2008
“There are plenty of places to watch online video, but still no easy way to find a particular clip without suffering through a lot of trial and error.”
NewTeeVee - September 10, 2008
“I was really impressed by the interface I saw demoed, which gives most of
the search result real estate to a chain of thumbnails within a video, so users
can see at a glance where what they’re looking for happens and navigate
through a video visually… Super neat stuff if you’re trying to find a
particular scene or moment!”
Tech.Blorge.com - September 10, 2008
“Creating a video search engine creates a huge challenge in terms of indexing the content and tagging it with relevant keywords. VideoSurf solves this problem by applying Computer Vision to actually ’see’ people and objects inside video.”
Robert Scobble - September 10, 2008
"Finally a website that doesn't suck."
