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Until today, AOL's December 2005 acquisition of video search startup Truveo has been a white-label technology behind the video capabilities of many of the Web's biggest sites. With its relaunch as a destination portal, Truveo became the top contender for best video search site in the world.

If, as Compete suggests, 20 million visitors is the "magical mark" indicating a website has officially arrived as a dominant force – most recent additions to this exclusive club include Digg.com and Facebook – then the folks behind AOL's Truveo video search engine must have exchanged their old wands for Super Deluxe models.

AOL's Truveo video search product should present developers and other users of the platform with better analytics and greater API performance. A trio of new...

Time Warner's AOL recently purchased Truveo.com, a video search site that opened its virtual doors to the public in September 2005; only three months later the startup became part of AOL and may be the enabling mechanism behind its forthcoming video store.

AOL has announced the acquisition of Truveo Inc. a video search engine provider based in Burlingame, California.

The video search engine Truveo didn't spend very much time as a stand-alone company, as AOL came calling with a briefcase full of money and left with the business in hand.

By purchasing video search startup Truveo, AOL may have given its pal at Google a little kick in the ribs after making off with $1 billion of their investment.

New approach to video search utilizes "visual crawling" to find video the same way a casual Web surfer would.