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"As the ability to search within a video improves, users will be able to find relevant content faster and the amount of time they spend consuming that content will increase..."
Technology to make rich media more SEO-friendly
"2008 could be the year online video becomes everything advertisers and publishers alike have dreamed it would be."
eView: The Next Great Leap Forward for Web Video
"The lure of inside-the-video search was enough to hook Intel Capital, Draper Fischer Jurvetson Frontier, and Labrador Ventures into offering $6 million in a first round of funding to Seattle-based Pluggd."
Pluggd Into $6 Million
"Alex Castro has been patient. 'I always felt that voice recognition was a technology that would someday be applied to mainstream uses'."
Are you talking to me?
"As a fun technology demo, Pluggd will be processing upcoming President Bush's State of the Union address and the Democratic response on Tuesday... instead of listening to the full speech, you can find the audio clips relevant to you."
Pluggd tees up searchable State of the Union
"The ramifications are significant, and that's just for starters. Once these audio chunks are analyzed, they can be mixed and mashed up in all manner of ways, pinpointing what users are looking for much for efficiently than text tags ever could."
Pluggd: A Google for Podcasts
"This search function enables you to skip to the parts of podcasts you want to hear. The feature is called HearHere... the demo I saw looked remarkable."
From the 11th Floor of PCMag: Pluggd
"Pluggd provides that 'wow' experience, giving you what you intuitively want when searching video: a way to skip forward to the exact part of the audio or video file you are looking for."
Pluggd "perfects" audio and video search, raises $1.65M
"I was wowed with regards to the "HearHere" technology featured at Pluggd.... I love the heat sensor/color bar in terms of relevance. Very user-friendly and a great visual tool."
Podcast SEO - Alex Castro of Pluggd
"Silicon Valley is swamped with confident entrepreneurs. But confident, candid and humble ones are in short supply- especially at technology conferences, where humility is often treated as a liability. That's why I took an interest in Alex Castro, founder of a Seattle startup called Pluggd. I met the 32-year-old last month at the DEMO conference..."
The Vowels Are Taken
"Superstar Pluggd, Inc. has a pretty sexy capability to sort through the gazillion hours of audio and video content online in order to find exactly what you want to see and hear."
Online Application Startups Go Desktopless
"If you're listening to a podcast... and want to jump to the part that talks about a particular thing, Pluggd will find it for you... This is a very cool system..."
Pluggd searches podcasts
"For my money, one of the best demos of the show so far is Pluggd's HearHere search technology... What makes Pluggd standout is it's "Heat Map" which shows exactly where your queried phrase is uttered, but also shows other warm areas..."
Contextual search for audio
"One of the highlights of the morning session was Pluggd's HearHere software that combines semantic/topic analysis and speech recognition to allow searching of audio files for specific content."
DemoFall 2006: Parsing podcasts, car navigation and mojo
"This is one of the most compelling examples I've seen lately of a growing trend: making multimedia content more granular and letting users take even greater control over the media we consume. We don't just want to consume what we wish, we want to consume it in the way we wish."
Pluggd to make podcasts chunkier, searchable
"The $100 billion radio and TV ad market is undergoing a revolution. It's moving to the Internet... we're going to capture a big share of that."
Create podcasts just for you with Pluggd
"Finally, Finally, Finally, a podcast directory has made it super easy to subscribe and listen to podcasts... A new service called Pluggd is so freaking easy, there's no more worries about downloading software or anything like that."
Podcast listening made easy
"Pluggd offers a few things that really differentiate it from other podcast communities...The Pluggd search engine actively crawls the web for new podcasts to index, instead of relying only on user submissions...The podcast directory space couldn't be much more crowded, but I like this one."
Pluggd podcast community launched today
Pluggd wants to bring podcasts to the masses..."
Pluggd to offer mass podcasts
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The Internet still uses text-based search to discover multi-media files such as video clips and podcasts. At Pluggd, our technology helps users discover what's inside an audio or video program, before playing the clip. With our patent-pending HeatMap interface, we guide users to the content topics they wish to see or hear. Our goal is to make multi-media search as easy and intuitive as general web search.
To learn more about our core technology and products, explore the links and try the demos on this page. If you are interested in finding out more about our company and products, please contact us at the addresses listed below.