Microsoft has acquired startup video search engine VideoSurf for $70 million.
The software was created by Israeli entrepreneurs Lior Delgo, Professor Achi Brandt, Dr. Eitan Sharon and Shai Deljo.
Outside of a number of important Israeli investors, the company also had investments from former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg.
VideoSurf is "a visual identification ... [ read the full article ]
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Maybe they should have spent the money on developing a better algorithm to provide useful results. Bing is an advertisers wet dream though, you get to click on multiple links to find out information instead of just one.
I was worried there for a second... I thought Microsoft was going to start documenting each time I looked up "huge wet hooters", but that's only if I use Bing... I detest Bing, so the likely hood of that happening & pretty slim.
Google has pretty much monopolized that market & my search criteria when I'm not anonymizing 'those' kind of searches (as it were). As for Youtube videos...? It's usually in hopes of finding old music videos back when MTV used to actually play music (yes I know, that too can be loosely defined as well, but at least there was more of it). Well... that & a stupid cat video now and again. You know, something with some explosions.
