AOL Bulks Up Video Search Engine with RSS Feeds

Dulles, Virginia – October 26, 2005 – AOL has increased its searchable video content by adding several new RSS feeds from partners to its video search engine.

Included in the news video content are RSS feeds from: Blastro.com, EVTV1.com, Forbes.com, GameTrailers.com, PC World and Time4 Media properties including Transworld Skateboarding, Transworld Snowboarding and Transworld Surf.

The new optimized video RSS feeds will be included in America Online’s new video search engine available through the AOL.com portal’s Video tab ( http://www.aol.com/video ), AOL Search ( http://www.aolsearch.com ) and on the AOL service. The content will also be available at SingingFish ( http://www.singingfish.com ).

”We’re thrilled to include these partners in our industry-leading AOL Video Search, stated Kevin Conroy, Executive Vice President of AOL Media Networks. ”With AOL Video Search, we are providing consumers with a faster, easier way to find the best videos on the web.”

AOL is intending to help video producers make their rich multimedia assets more accessible to consumers, and also to allow producers to control the video playback experience in order to help drive traffic back to their web sites.

AOL’s video search engine has become one of the leaders in high-quality video content online – in key categories from entertainment to news. Its database draws from the AOL Video on-demand archive of more than 18,000 licensed and originally produced video assets including popular exclusive and AOL-original programs like AOL Music Sessions, AOL Music LIVE!, Moviefone’s “Unscripted,” the Moviefone Short Film Festival, AOL Coaches and more; over 1.5 million video assets available on the Internet indexed through AOL’s Singingfish; and RSS feeds from top video streaming sites.

The combined approach – which is similar in many respects to a traditional meta-search engine – lets people search from one place for high-quality, current online video spanning popular music videos, movie features, television clips, news coverage, sports highlights, and also independently produced videos.

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Reputation Defender – Giggs Outed

Giggs Outed – Reputation Defender

Ryan Giggs Outed by MP as Super Injunction footballer

Super Injunction had stopped the discovery of facts about their affair

A wedded footballer named on Twitter as having a super injunction over a supposed adulterous affair with a reality TV star has been acknowledged in Parliament as Ryan Giggs.

Lib Dem MP John Hemming outed Giggs through an urgent Commons question on privacy orders.

Using parliamentary privilege to break the court order, he said it would not be practical to imprison the 75,000 Twitter users who had named the player.

The High Court has again ruled that the injunction should not be lifted.

It rejected two attempts on Monday to overturn the ban, the first after a Scottish paper named the footballer on Sunday, and the second after Mr Hemming’s action.

Twitter order

The player obtained the order against ex-Big Brother contestant Imogen Thomas, who is a former Miss Wales, and the Sun newspaper.

The footballer’s lawyers have also obtained a High Court order asking Twitter to reveal details of users who had revealed his identity after thousands named him.

Parliamentary privilege protects MPs and peers from prosecution for statements made in the House of Commons or House of Lords.

Addressing MPs, Mr Hemming said: “Mr Speaker, with about 75,000 people having named Ryan Giggs it is obviously impracticable to imprison them all.”

 

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