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Monday, September 3, 2007; 02:55 AM
The Internet is based on open source, open standards and collaboration. Many developments of the last years, including
the renewal of the web under the buzzword "web 2.0", were propelled by
collaboration and open standards. The new video search engine
Lumerias.com embraces this movement and implements three important
standards right from the start, making searching and finding videos on
the Web easier and thus streamlining the personal organisation of
information.
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Besides E-Mail, the use of search engines is one of
the most important applications on the Internet today. A recent and
important innovation within this domain is the standardisation of query
interfaces and result presentation. These common practices enable users
to query search engines directly from their applications, without the
detour over entry pages. Basis of this functionality is the OpenSearch
format. An increasing number of browsers, including the free Mozilla
Firefox, support this standard. Since Lumerias.com integrates
OpenSearch in HTML and RSS 2.0, numerous applications can natively
access the search interface and present the video search results
returned by Lumerias.com.
One of the components of the
OpenSearch collection of technologies is the Really Simple Syndication
format (RSS) – for nearly ten years the de facto standard for
subscribing to news and website updates. Supporting this format, it is
thereby possible to subscribe to video search queries, without
OpenSearch, as a RSS feed. Using RSS feed aggregators, it is just a
simple click to save previous video searches and let the software
discover new videos regarding a certain topic or keyword.
Apart
from RSS and OpenSearch, Web Services are gaining momentum among
developers on the Internet. Web Service is the generic term for systems
that enable machines or programs to interoperable interact with each
other over the Internet. Lumerias.com exposes such a Web Service which
makes the smooth integration of video search functionality into third
party applications possible. Essentially the graphic surface of
Lumerias.com is just a cover for the hit lists supplied by the
underlying system. Providing these hit lists as Web Service enables
licensees of Lumerias.com to offer the same search functionality to
their users, as Lumerias.com itself offers on its user interface.
More
information about the Application Programming Interfaces and feeds can
be found on the Internet at http://www.lumerias.com/apiAbout Lumerias.com
Live since August 1st, 2007, Lumerias.com is an
international video search engine of the next generation. It enables
users to easily find videos from all over the web, including the major
social video portals. Search results are served on a simple interface
that renders other services with tedious and cluttered pages obsolete.
Over the next months a number of innovations will further improve the
quality of search results. Currently algorithms to automatically make
sense of the indexed videos' image data and to transcribe their content
are being tested.
About Clipland GmbH
The company's core
site, the "short form media" information portal www.clipland.com is
online since 1998. The site caters to an audience of film and video
amateurs and professionals interested or working in short films, music
videos, tv commercials and movie trailers. For its wealth of background
information, crew and talent credits as well as media resources,
clipland.com has since become one of the most important sources of
information regarding "short media" on the Internet. The web video search on clipland.com uses the Lumerias.com search API, which is also licensable by third parties.
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