» Blinkx http://videos.webpronews.com Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:23:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 SES: Content And Metadata Are Key In Video Success http://videos.webpronews.com/2008/08/matthew-scheybeler/ http://videos.webpronews.com/2008/08/matthew-scheybeler/#comments Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:08:56 +0000 admin http://videos.webpronews.com/?p=935 Although Video SEO is not completely new, it is still tricky. Matthew Scheybeler of Blinkx talks to WebProNews and gives a few helpful tips. First of all, Matthew recommends submitting a video sitemap to Google and the other search engines. According to Matthew, the most important factors for video SEO are good content and metadata. Find out more in the WebProNews interview with Matthew Scheybeler at SES San Jose.

]]> http://videos.webpronews.com/2008/08/matthew-scheybeler/feed/ 0 Does Paid Search Effect Organic Rankings and Microsoft Plans to by MedStory.com http://videos.webpronews.com/2007/03/does-paid-search-effect-organic-rankings-and-microsoft-plans-to-by-medstorycom/ http://videos.webpronews.com/2007/03/does-paid-search-effect-organic-rankings-and-microsoft-plans-to-by-medstorycom/#comments Mon, 05 Mar 2007 21:18:56 +0000 admin http://mcvideo.webpronews.com/2007/03/05/does-paid-search-effect-organic-rankings-and-microsoft-plans-to-by-medstorycom/ Does paid search have an affect on organic search engine rankings? Google CPG Blog’s Susan Minniear comments on endorsing paid search. Minniear outlines four reasons for companies to invest in paid search: Control, Competition, ROI and the more the better. Paid advertisements let you manage your message more. Hitwise statistics explain if you don’t use paid search to make the most of your brand, the competition probably will. EMarketer statistics show the conversion rate for brand keywords seems almost four times higher than for no-brand keywords. Minnier adds the more ads the better.

Microsoft announced plans to purchase health search engine Medstory.com. Medstory works towards filling the needs of customers and health professionals who look for information on medical topics. Search Insider’s Mark Simon imagines Microsoft moving forward to triumph in the search wars. Simon thinks Microsoft has landed a huge advantage in the health market with the vertical search engine Medstory.

The world’s largest video search engine Blinkx teamed up with Motion.tv to include user-generated video content to search indexing. Blinkx has developed a reputation for complete video searching. Motion.tv permits anyone with a video camera to distribute his or her video clips online and make money while doing it. Blinkx plans on indexing more than four thousand Motion.tv video clips to make them more crawlable.

Michael Alan Crooker sues Microsoft for failing to hide porn. The FBI invaded Crooker’s home in 2004 to look for homemade explosives. The FBI took his laptop to analyze data and discovered a variety of porn. Crooker seeks compensatory and punitive damages from breeches in data security, because he set Internet Explorer to delete his browsing history after five days and Crooker claims the software failed to do so.

]]> http://videos.webpronews.com/2007/03/does-paid-search-effect-organic-rankings-and-microsoft-plans-to-by-medstorycom/feed/ 2 Blinkx Grabs Deal With Microsoft http://videos.webpronews.com/2006/10/blinkx-grabs-deal-with-microsoft/ http://videos.webpronews.com/2006/10/blinkx-grabs-deal-with-microsoft/#comments Fri, 13 Oct 2006 13:55:21 +0000 admin http://mcvideo.webpronews.com/2006/10/13/blinkx-grabs-deal-with-microsoft/ Unique in their field, video search engine Blinkx has had a history with big players such as YouTube, Fox, Lycos and BBC News. Unlike others, Blinkx indexes the actual content of media (through speech recognition) rather than relying on tagging. This removes issues plaguing media searches since their inception: chief among those, human error. It’s no wonder Microsoft sought them out as a possible addition to their MSN and Live.com services.

We recently joined Suranga Chandratillake to chat about Blinkx and their recent deal with Redmond’s finest.

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