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Major TV News Web Sites Now Searchable by the Spoken Word

Press Release

1/31/2006 10:05 am ET

FAIRFIELD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 31, 2006--Searching through TV news Web sites for just what you want can be frustrating, as most broadcast sites only offer search based on the descriptive text associated with each segment. For lengthy interviews and features, zeroing in on content that is relevant to the searcher can mean long downloads and longer playing times, only to find out that the information sought wasn't there. Searching based on the limited text describing each file can mean that meaningful mentions of search terms can be missed altogether. Using TVEyes' free TV search engine at www.tveyes.com, users can be certain they've found exactly what they are looking for by instantly playing video snippets containing their keywords, before visiting the news site to view or download the entire file. TVEyes creates a Spoken Word Index(TM) for every word in an audio or video file, making Internet TV searchable in the same manner as Google for text pages on the Web.

"A critical element in making Internet TV work is to make relevant content easily accessible via search," said David J. Ives, president and chief executive officer of TVEyes, Inc. "At tveyes.com, our free TV search engine offers our site visitors the ability to search for any phrase of interest and then instantly play snippets at every point where that phrase is mentioned to ascertain relevancy - you don't have to download and listen to the entire file to know if it's what you want."

TVEyes.com now provides spoken word search for foxnews.com, cnn.com, msnbc.com, cbsnews.com, reuters.com and news.bbc.co.uk. More sites will be added soon, and content owners are encouraged to contact the company to request site indexing.

About TVEyes Inc.

TVEyes Inc., headquartered in Fairfield, Conn., provides online, real-time search and indexing for television and radio broadcasts, introducing the first system of its kind in 1999. Its Media Monitoring Suite is in use by corporations, professional sports teams, political campaigns, elected officials and the military to provide up-to-the-second intelligence on broadcast news, in multiple languages and for US and international markets. More information on TVEyes can be found at http://www.tveyes.com or http://www.podscope.com.

Spoken Word Index and Spoken Word Search are trademarks of TVEyes Inc. All other trademarks referenced are property of their respective owners. ©2005 TVEyes Inc.

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