With VideoSurf's mobile app, customers can discover videos by simply pointing their phones at a television or computer screen to capture a few seconds of what they are watching. Using patented ...

Move over, text-search technology. Companies are now looking to get a better handle on the Internet’s growing tsunami of video and images. That’s what the winner in the Search category, VideoSurf Inc.

Today's Web search engines are driven primarily by searching for text keywords. This works fairly well when what you are searching for is words; but it fails pretty miserably when you are searching ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. The major search engines -- even Google with its blockbuster purchase of ...

Video search engine uses automated process that scans videos faster than real-time, and does not require people to do the heavy lifting. Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before ...

GeekWire chronicles the Pacific Northwest startup scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter, and check out the GeekWire funding tracker and VC directory. by John Cook on Nov 22, 2011 at 6:28 am ...

Microsoft Corp announced Monday the acquisition of VideoSurf, a video search engine that scans content visually rather than through keyword search. Microsoft is making the acquisition so consumers can ...

Sometimes you’re watching a random TV show on a random channel and you wonder, who was she again? What show was she in? And then you forget about it and those questions are left unanswered, your brain ...

I’m generally not given to hyperbole or breathless enthusiasm when writing about a new search service. Quite the opposite, in fact—over the decade I’ve covered search I’ve seen so many so-called ...

VideoSurf, the new video search engine that I uncharacteristically raved about a little over a month ago, is now live for everyone to use. As I wrote then, “VideoSurf is one of the most innovative, ...

Microsoft has acquired VideoSurf, an Al Gore-backed video search technology start-up, for a reported $70 million. The news was first reported by Israeli business newspaper Calcalist (text in Hebrew).

Microsoft has announced that it has inked a deal to acquire video searching startup VideoSurf in a bid to improve searching for entertainment content across its Xbox Live platform. By integrating ...