Video search engine Lumerias com trusts in open standards

Duisburg, August 30, 2007 -- The Internet is based on opensource, open standards and collaboration. Many developments of the last years,including the renewal of the web under the buzzword "web 2.0", were propelled bycollaboration and open standards. The new video search engine Lumerias.com embracesthis movement and implements three important standards right from the start, makingsearching and finding videos on the Web easier and thus streamlining the personalorganisation of information.

Besides E-Mail, the use of search engines is one of the most important applicationson the Internet today. A recent and important innovation within this domain is thestandardisation of query interfaces and result presentation. These common practicesenable users to query search engines directly from their applications, without thedetour over entry pages. Basis of this functionality is the OpenSearch format. Anincreasing number of browsers, including the free Mozilla Firefox, support thisstandard. Since Lumerias.com integrates OpenSearch in HTML and RSS 2.0, numerousapplications can natively access the search interface and present the video searchresults returned by Lumerias.com.

One of the components of the OpenSearch collection of technologies is the ReallySimple Syndication format (RSS) for nearly ten years the de facto standard forsubscribing to news and website updates. Supporting this format, it is therebypossible 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 videosearches and let the software discover new videos regarding a certain topic orkeyword.

Apart from RSS and OpenSearch, Web Services are gaining momentum among developers onthe Internet. Web Service is the generic term for systems that enable machines orprograms to interoperable interact with each other over the Internet. Lumerias.comexposes such a Web Service which makes the smooth integration of video searchfunctionality into third party applications possible. Essentially the graphicsurface of Lumerias.com is just a cover for the hit lists supplied by the underlyingsystem. Providing these hit lists as Web Service enables licensees of Lumerias.comto offer the same search functionality to their users, as Lumerias.com itself offerson its user interface.

More information about the Application Programming Interfaces and feeds can be foundon the Internet at http://www.lumerias.com/api

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About Lumerias.comLive since August 1st, 2007, Lumerias.com is an international video search engine ofthe 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 simpleinterface that renders other services with tedious and cluttered pages obsolete.Over the next months a number of innovations will further improve the quality ofsearch results. Currently algorithms to automatically make sense of the indexedvideos' image data and to transcribe their content are being tested.

About Clipland GmbHThe company's core site, the "short form media" information portal www.clipland.comis online since 1998. The site caters to an audience of film and video amateurs andprofessionals interested or working in short films, music videos, tv commercials andmovie trailers. For its wealth of background information, crew and talent credits aswell as media resources, clipland.com has since become one of the most importantsources of information regarding "short media" on the Internet.The web video search on clipland.com uses the Lumerias.com search API, which is alsolicensable by third parties.

We reserve the rights of errors and changes. 2007 Clipland GmbH.

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