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SAN FRANCISCO – January 15, 2009 – Truveo announced that its industry-leading video search tool is being integrated throughout SFGate.com, the online home of the San Francisco Chronicle, providing contextually relevant videos and video search next to content on the site. SFGate.com currently uses Truveo in its Cars section, http://www.sfgate.com/autos/, and plans to integrate Truveo, http://www.truveo.com, on additional pages shortly.

SFGate.com is the leading news and information Web site for the San Francisco Bay Area, attracting more than 12 million unique visitors and 95 million page views a month. The site delivers up-to-the-minute news stories, in-depth special reports, local sports coverage, regional listings and entertainment coverage.

AOL revealed the top Web, mobile and video searches of 2008, which found that Barack Obama, Britney Spears and American Idol topped the newsmaker, celebrity and TV categories, respectively. The top viral video search on Truveo was will.i.am's "Yes, We Can" video based on an Obama campaign speech. For a complete list of Web and mobile results, visit http://hot.aol.com/2008, and for the most searched videos, visit http://www.truveo.com/hot2008.

NEW YORK – December 1, 2008 – The presidential elections dominated user searches this year, according to AOL’s annual lists of top Web, mobile and video searches across more than 40 categories for 2008. But celebrities continued to be hot topics for searchers as well. The rankings are based on the people, places and topics that received the largest volume of Web and mobile search queries on AOL Search, http://search.aol.com, and on Truveo, AOL’s leading video search engine, http://www.truveo.com.

Glastonbury, Conn. – August 4, 2008 – TopCoder®, Inc., the leader in online programming competition, skills assessment and competitive software development, today announced the winners of the Truveo Developer Challenge. Competing for a prize pool of $100,000, developers were set loose to build custom applications that use Truveo’s open API, http://developer.truveo.com, to build the next great video search application. Competitors leveraged Truveo, the world’s leading video search engine with a continuously-updated index of more than 200 million Web videos, to create 93 powerful new applications in just over two months of competition.

San Francisco, CA – June 12, 2008 – Truveo, the leading video search engine, today launched a major update to its website that improves the performance and makes the site more useful to consumers. The new site is available at http://www.truveo.com; localized versions of the new Truveo experience are available in 16 other countries.

“Consumer interest in online video has exploded, and video is now one of the key drivers of audience and traffic growth on the Web, which increases the importance of a quality video search product,” said Kevin Conroy, Executive Vice President of AOL. “Truveo offers consumers in the U.S. and abroad the most advanced video search tool to find what they’re looking for, and as a result it’s seen dramatic global growth. The enhancements to Truveo.com only improve what is already the best video search experience.”