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 ...

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Yesterday morning, we reported that Microsoft had acquired Israeli video startup, VideoSurf, for approximately $70 million. The deal indeed has been greenlighted, as Microsoft confirmed in its blog ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Video search is an unsolved problem. VideoSurf applies hardcore computer vision technology to this problem and finds relevant results beyond what may already be available to text-based search methods.

Firefox with Greasemonkey (All platforms): Previously mentioned video search site VideoSurf has released a Greasemonkey script that embeds its "visual summary" strips into search results from Google, ...

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, ...

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 ...