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Sproose Launches Human Powered Video Search Engine Danville, CA. (August 29, 2007) Sproose, the leading interactive search engine with technology allowing users to vote and rank the index of web results, launched today its voting technology for video search. Sproose delivers a "human popularity voting" model where each user may influence the ranking of the index creating improved search results. The more users that vote a site the further up in the ranking it moves. The same voting technology is now being applied to the Sproose video search index. Key Sproose features include, user voting for web and video search results, a tool bar- button for remote voting, a spam removal link and a personal profile page to save and share your voted site history with others. "Sproose offers users a really creative way of having the community improve upon algorithmic search for both video content and web results," says Bob Pack, CEO. The video index is supplied by blinkx through a partnership with Sproose, which has over
fourteen million hours of video content. "This is another great feature which sets us apart from all
other search engines and is the easiest and most fun way for users to find videos. The Sproose video index is at http://www.sproose.com About Sproose Sproose provides a consumer search engine whereby the users can influence the ranking of the index by voting on the results. Each user is able to create a different set of search results when searching under the same keyword. With its proprietary 'Knowledge Rank' moderated directory technologies, Sproose users can effectively categorize and index sites, tailored for personal or group usage. The rating of search results is done without downloading applications to ensure privacy. Additional information about Sproose can be found by visiting our website: |