What is Doovle?
 
Doovle is a new kind of video search.
 
Doovle lets viewers watch and navigate around all kinds of video content in a uniquely non-linear way. Doovle lets your viewers find and watch the scenes they want using text search and visual scene browsing, instantly and easily.
 
The patented Doovle video search engine has been developed especially for:
 

		IPTV Channels
		Film & Video Archives
		Educational Broadcasters
		Movie Info/Rental Sites
		Official TV Show Sites
		Corporate Training Resources

 
Doovle lets users search for words and phrases inside the content of all kinds of video and to see Google-like search results helping them find exactly what scene they want to watch. Every result can be clicked to make the video content play immediately from the relevant timing point.
 
Doovle is especially suited to long, full programmes and films rather than just short clips.
 
Doovle works with Quicktime, Windows Media and Flash video content. The Doovle engine and application can be integrated inside any existing web site or IPTV channel structure but is hosted independently of the servers or CDNs from which your video is served.

Doovle & IPTV Channels
 
In the context of IPTV, Doovle can make the difference between a channel being an interesting curiosity for passing viewers or being a valued resource to which viewers will happily subscribe.
 
Take a look at the Eden Project IPTV channel below and try a search for "Biome".
 
 
Compare the experience with trying to find scenes within programmes in your own IPTV channel without using Doovle.
 
Doovle & Official TV Show Sites
 
Imagine being able to search for any line in The Simpsons, Lost, 24 or The West Wing and to be able to watch a short clip of the exact scene you were looking for instantly. Doovle was built to do just this. To make your official fan site stickier and more engaging.
 
Doovle can be licenced by any third party content owner, publisher or broadcaster and can be integrated into any existing web site or channel interface.

Doovle & Longtail Content
 
For large digital archives of video content, Doovle is an ideal off-site navigation tool with three unique functions:
 

		Soundtrack Text Search
		Scene (Stills) Browsing
		Assisted Scene Tagging

 
With Doovle's assisted scene tagging your administrators can prepare powerful, searchable indexes to help users locate any type of content in any size of archive.
 
With Doovle's automated soundtrack text search, your users can navigate quickly to specific scenes in which specific words are mentioned. With Doovle's scene browsing, users can find scenes they're looking for even when there is no soundtrack.
 
Doovle @ MIPTV
 
Doovle was selected by a panel of BBC judges as a finalist in the 2006 Content 360 digital pitching competition, part of MIPTV 2006.
 
At this event in Cannes, Doovle was first unveiled and audience members were given the totality of the BBC's Fawlty Towers and Blackadder shows to search and to laugh at.
 
For live access to see Doovle's entry to the Content 360 competition, Click Here.