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ClipBlast! Video Search Engine Launches With Industry's First Video Search Toolbar

Posted on: Tuesday, 12 September 2006, 09:00 CDT

ClipBlast! (www.clipblast.com), a pioneering video search technology, today introduced the industry's first online video search toolbar and formally emerged from an 18-month beta period. The company made its debut at the Fall 2006 Video on the Net conference, here through September 14.

ClipBlast's patent-pending technology gives users the ability to search for video clips from across the entire web -- a capability that even search-engine stalwarts like Google and MSN do not provide. Consumers and companies alike can easily add ClipBlast!'s unique toolbar (www.clipblast.com/toolsSearch.php) to their web sites and blogs, by simply copying and pasting HTML code.

"ClipBlast! is to video search what Google once was to static-page search," said Gary Baker, ClipBlast! founder and CEO. "Today, users are mostly forced to search for video within the walls of a specific site. We knock down those walls and give users freedom to find and access relevant video clips -- whether the content was posted to YouTube, CNN or some quality video in between."

Now that 75 percent of U.S. households have broadband, video sharing has emerged as the web's killer app. YouTube is now the 10th most trafficked site on the web, and even once-static properties like blogs, newsletters and informational websites are increasingly adding video. Video search, on the other hand, is still at the starting gate, with no defined market leaders. While video sharing sites largely center around entertainment, video search delivers freedom to access multimedia information as well as be entertained.

"Users are getting accustomed to viewing video on the Internet," said Baker. "In no time at all, they're going to expect to find video content the same way they find other information -- through search. ClipBlast! is ready to meet this demand."

ClipBlast! has spent the last two years quietly cementing its front-runner status in the emerging video search market by indexing millions of video clips from across the web. The company's patent-pending technology crawls the web in search of video, then categorizes video files, web pages and feeds so that the most relevant clips can be served up in real-time, on demand.

Users can search, save and share video clips with friends, family and community. The MyClipBlast! personalization tool takes video online a step further, enabling users to request in advance that video clips on certain subjects be emailed whenever they become available. A baseball fan can, for example, enter "NY Yankees" as a search term to receive real-time email links to all related footage.

For site owners, ClipBlast! offers back-end video search technology that organizes and monetizes video libraries. Like Google and other traditional search engines, ClipBlast! helps provide content owners and advertisers with significant revenue opportunities by delivering active, targeted video-viewing audiences.

About ClipBlast!

Founded in 2004, ClipBlast! provides pioneering video search that uses patent-pending technology to continuously update the largest index of video content from across the Internet. ClipBlast!'s fast, easy interface gives users instant access to millions of quality, highly relevant, targeted clips from the world's major media brands, independent producers and individuals -- clips that inform, enlighten, inspire and entertain. The company is based in Agoura Hills, Calif. To learn more, visit http://www.clipblast.com.

Source: Business Wire

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