|
|
|
| Home » Video Sites on Music » Singing Fish |
|
Singing Fish |
|
|
Singing Fish the audio/video search engine was powered to search for Windows Media Player, WindowsMedia.com, RealOne/RealPlayer, Real Guide[1], AOL Search, Dogpile, Metacrawler[2] and Singingfish.com, among others. The site was launched in the year 2000 and was one of the earliest and longest lived search engine. In 2003 however, AOL acquired Singing Fish and then it was slowly folded in to the AOL search offerings. Since February 2007 Singing Fish has existed as a separate service of AOL.
|
|
Singing Fish powered video search is no longer publicly available. However, you can still search for your songs and music videos with AOL. The webcrawler of Singing Fish called Asterias was designed specifically to ferret out audio and video links across the web. In 2003 and 2004, Asterias discovered an average of about 50,000 new pieces of multimedia content a day. The history of Singing Fish dates back to mid 1999 when it was founded by John DeRosa, Eric Rehm, Ken Berkun, and Mike Behlke. In November 2000 it was acquired by the French company Thomson Multimedia which is now Thomson SA. By the summer of 2001 the multimedia search engine Singing Fish was clearly dominant.
Soon after AOL acquired Singing Fish, it integrated its audio/video search service into AOL search, it added yet another big name to the stable of search products powered by Singing Fish. As of August 2006, Singing Fish continued to power multimedia search for both Microsoft and Real, and was being fully integrated into the AOL search and directed media business unit.
The features of Singing Fish include its supported format for
- MP3
- MPEG
- Quicktime
- Windows Media
- Real Media
- Flash
- AVI
The content providers below added their audio and video content to Singing Fish 's search index using regular feeds. In addition to providing high quality meta data to be indexed, these direct feeds also enabled Singing Fish to produce highly current results for news related queries.
- Comedy Central
- MTV
- Nickelodeon
- TV Land
- Reuters
- BBC News
- CBS News
- E! News
- iFilm
- MSNBC
- NPR
- AtomFilms
- CNN
- Hollywood.com
- Like Television
- MarketWatch (Dow Jones & Company)
- The One Network
- RooTV
- AOL
Stay connected to video sites on music to know more about video sites.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
