Video search engine Lumerias com trusts in open standards
Released on = August 30, 2007, 11:53 am
Press Release Author = Lumerias.com
Industry = Internet & Online
Press Release Summary = Video search engine Lumerias.com implements important open
source standards.
Press Release Body = Duisburg, August 30, 2007 -- 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.
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/api
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About 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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