VideoSurf Press
Marin Perez - Intomobile - September 8, 2022
"The Droid Bionic also comes with a ton of preloaded software including the range of V Cast apps, ZumoCast, Amazon Kindle... and the VideoSurf app. Some of these are actually pretty cool (NFL, VideoSurf) but those who like a cleaner Android experience will likely just root it anyways."
Madhubanti Rudra - TMCnet Contributor June 07, 2022
"Recently, VideoSurf, a company focused on video discovery, announced a new mobile application that is now available on millions of smartphones from Verizon."
June 6th, 2011
"Blending together superior features, the VideoSurf app has forayed into the market to delight Android users with a rich multimedia experience."
Zachary Lutz - Engadget Mobile - June 5th, 2011
"If you haven't heard of VideoSurf before now, you'll be forgiven..."
Jason Ankeny - Fierce Mobile Content - June 2, 2022
"The VideoSurf app includes visual and audio search tools as well as conventional text-based search queries"
Ronny Kerr - VatorNews - April, 15, 2011
"...pores over uploads across all the biggest video hubs."
Peter Kafka - All Things D - April 14, 2022
"VideoSurf’s specific pitch is that its software can identify images within the video it scans, instead of relying on metadata."
AppsMarketing - January 10, 2022
"The application which works like Shazam..."
IntoMobile - January 9, 2022
"Just point your phone at the screen and VideoSurf will do its magic, identifying the episode, find it online and provide you with the ability to share it with your friends on Facebook and Twitter."
Review Island - January 9, 2022
"The focus that functions similar to Shazam for video allows users to brand a video they’re watching. Just indicate your phone during a shade as well as VideoSurf will do a magic, identifying a episode, find it online as well as yield we with a capability to share it with your friends upon Facebook as well as Twitter."
Taylor Wimberly – Android and Me - January 7, 2022
"It almost sounds too good to be true."
iAndroid Central - January 7, 2022
"A new service somewhat reminiscent of Shazam and Sound Hound has surfaced on our radar, but with one major distinction: this app does videos."
Tim Kraaijvanger – Android Planet - January 7, 2022
"VideoSurf reveals not only who the actor is and what it is for film or television, but also gives recommendations which series and movies are fun."
Phone Arena - January 7, 2022
"VideoSurf offers you an easier solution...we can't wait to test it ourselves."
AndroidPolice.com - January 7, 2022
"While it hasn’t been released yet, it is fairly obvious, in my opinion, how unspeakably handy and fun this service will be."
By Alfred Poor – HDTV Magazine - January 7, 2022
"I can think of lots of ways that this app would be helpful."
Lars Aronsson - Androinica - January 7, 2022
"...it identifies people on TV"
Guillaume Belfiore – Clubic.com - January 7, 2022
(Translated using Google Translations) "In this way it will be possible to generate an analysis of facial recognition coupled with a request for information........It will then be possible to register a flow of information and updates for a given artist and receive videos related to that capture."
Android Market - January 7, 2022
(Google Translated from Czech) "Have no choice but to look forward to when the application will appear in the Android Market."
Cyril – Android France - January 7, 2022
(Google Translated from French) "Specifically, you watch TV and you see a player but you can not put a name on it, you start the application VideoSurf and after a few seconds the application gives you information about the artist."
FrAndroid - January 7, 2022
(Google Translated from French) "A revolution was brought by smartphones Shazam. The combination of a complex algorithm, but a slick, made it possible to search the name of a song playing. With VideoSurf, the same experiment will be feasible, but this time with videos!"
UStream - January 6, 2022
Margo’s interview for ShowStoppers.
Dylan Bailey - SlashGear - Jan 6th, 2011
"VideoSurf allows the user to determine exactly what’s playing just from five seconds of captured video."
Inc. - March 1, 2022
"VideoSurf organizes content based on visual recognition of faces and images in videos, rather than using text-based data such as meta tags. The technology returns a string of snapshots showing frames within a video, much like fast-forwarding through a DVD."
Lifehacker - August 15, 2022
"Whether Rickrolling left you permanently scarred or you're just a cautious link clicker, VideoSurf is an add-on for Firefox which not only lets you peek at a thumbnail of video links but gives you useful information about them."
Bub.blicio.us - August 10, 2022
"The newly released VideoSurf Firefox extension offers videos at a glance, giving you the ability to see what's behind shortened URL video links"
NewTeeVee -June 12, 2009
“VideoSurf doesn’t take spam videos out of search results entirely — after all, somebody, somewhere, could be looking for that one particular video. But the search engine pushes them down to the fourth results page or lower for many search terms”
WebProNews - June 10, 2022
“They [VideoSurf] use their vision technology to automatically detect spam videos and algorithmically devalue them in their rankings before they make it onto the results page.”
New York Times - June 2, 2022
"VideoSurf helps users find videos of people online by spotting faces with uncanny accuracy."
USA TODAY - February 3, 2022
"Fiddling with VideoSurf is habit-forming."
Kurt the Cyber Guy - January 23, 2022
"Spend less time searching for you favorite online videos and more time enjoying them"
New York Times - December 5, 2022
"Mr. McQuivey of Forrester says he thinks VideoSurf’s technology might have arrived at an opportune time."
Silicon Valley Business Journal - December 5, 2022
"Move over, text-search technology"
Wall Street Journal - November 19, 2022
"VideoSurf is one of those technologies that make you wonder why someone didn't think of it sooner"
Wall Street Journal - October 30, 2022
"VideoSurf Inc. is analyzing the actual visual content of videos using technology known as "computer vision algorithms," which produces more relevant search results"
PC Magzine - October 16, 2022
"VideoSurf is a compelling way of doing advanced searches for videos across multiple sources"
Search Engine Land - October 15, 2022
"It’s still just as good (if not better) than it was when I saw the private beta. If you’re looking for a good alternative to the video search services you’re currently using, click on over to VideoSurf now and give it a try"
Fortune - September 18, 2022
“VideoSurf does the heavy lifting for web viewers with algorithms that
identify people and backgrounds in videos and then converts them into thumbnail
frames that summarize sections of the video.”
SearchEngineWatch - September 11, 2022
“For the sake brevity, I’ll just talk about the best one I saw -- San Mateo, Calif based video search engine VideoSurf.”
MarketWatch - September 11, 2022
“One startup that got a lot of attention on Wednesday was a company that developed a search engine to search video called VideoSurf of San Mateo, Calif., and backed by former vice president Al Gore and Joel Hyatt, the co-founders of Current Media. “
redOrbit - September 11, 2022
“VideoSurf’s ‘computer vision’ is very distinctive when compared to other media search engines like YouTube, Blinkx and EveryZing.”
CNET - September 11, 2022
“VideoSurf – Breakthrough video search engine that can identify people.
Why we like it: With the amount of video content on the Web expanding rapidly,
we need a Google for video that doesn't just search tags, titles, and captions.
VideoSurf actually gets into the files to recognize faces.”
Los Angeles Times - September 10, 2022
“VideoSurf argues that relying on text tags to determine the content of
videos is flawed. Instead, it offers a visual search engine that can peek
inside the video frame by frame so it can return more relevant results."
"This is the first time to my knowledge that a company has offered the ability
to recognize specific people and organize video according to the presence of
people in the video," Forrester analyst James McQuivey said. "There are so many
possible applications for this. It has the potential to be very influential."
Search Engine Land - September 10, 2022
“I'll echo the headline for this post: VideoSurf is one of the most innovative, radically different approaches to video search (or any kind of search for that matter) that I've ever seen.”
VideoSurf - September 10, 2022
"Using a combination of new computer vision and fast computation
techniques, VideoSurf has taught computers to "see" inside videos to
understand and analyze the content, in order to deliver more relevant
results."
CNET - September 10, 2022
“There are established companies in the [video] space, like the U.K.-based Blinkx, but none of them has captured the market share that video search potentially could. Enter VideoSurf, a company launching later on Wednesday at the TechCrunch50 conference that's been getting a choice spot in the tech-blogger limelight thanks to a Los Angeles Times preview."
Washington Post - September 10, 2022
“Video search is an unsolved problem. VideoSurf applies hardcore computervision technology to this problem and finds relevant results beyond what may already be available to text-based search methods.”
Associated Press - September 10, 2022
“There are plenty of places to watch online video, but still no easy way to find a particular clip without suffering through a lot of trial and error.”
NewTeeVee - September 10, 2022
“I was really impressed by the interface I saw demoed, which gives most of
the search result real estate to a chain of thumbnails within a video, so users
can see at a glance where what they’re looking for happens and navigate
through a video visually… Super neat stuff if you’re trying to find a
particular scene or moment!”
Robert Scobble - September 10, 2022
"Finally a website that doesn't suck."
Tech.Blorge.com - September 10, 2022
“Creating a video search engine creates a huge challenge in terms of indexing the content and tagging it with relevant keywords. VideoSurf solves this problem by applying Computer Vision to actually ’see’ people and objects inside video.”
