Berlin, Germany-based web TV startup TVBookmark has just launched the U.S. version of its website, www.tvbookmark.info.
(1888PressRelease) April 06, 2010 - TVBookmark was founded in April 2007 with the main goal of making news and other high quality video content on the web more accessible, and has since then grown into one of the largest German web TV websites. The new U.S. version is completely tailored to the U.S. market.
High quality video content on the web is becoming more and more available, but is still hard to find with algorithm-based video search engines, because their results are often too broad and of a mixed quality. TVBookmark picks sources editorially - mostly from publisher and TV station websites als well as from selected video blogs and channels from video platforms - and combines this handcraft with tailored crawling and indexing algorithms.
This two-legged approach guarantees a certain quality level for search results as well as providing nearly real-time results from a variety of sources, which can be especially useful when looking for news-related topics as well as shows or documentaries. Indexed videos can then also be browsed by topic or different categories like "News", "Tech & Science" or "Sports".
While the German website (www.tvbookmark.de) has more than 200,000 indexed web TV videos from more than 400 sources, the U.S. version is still growing, with just over 15,000 videos from 224 sources. However, www.tvbookmark.info is constantly adding more sources, and its index should grow fast in the coming weeks and months.
In addition to the main desktop version of TVBookmark, there is a mobile version to help visitors discover high quality video content on the go, as well as a version for use with computer-connected home TVs with bigger font sizes and UI elements, which can be navigated with the arrow keys on a wireless keyboard or a smartphone remote application.