By Alan Masarsky, here.

One of the hottest destinations for categorized topics and a “guide to the web”- Kosmix.com – has integrated Clipta video search into their site to provide more video options to over 5 million of their monthly visitors.

Utilizing Clipta’s easy-to-use and flexible API, Kosmix can now search and display our index of hundreds of millions of online videos and the latest videos from the most popular destinations on the web. Our API allows web publishers and developers to bring completely customizable video search to their sites, along with the ability to use video search results in custom applications and widgets.  As users engage with videos on API partner sites, Clipta’s unique search algorithm records the  engagement in order to continue improving and to continue delivering even more relevant and tailored search results.

Integration on Kosmix part varies from displaying Clipta video search results on all of their Video sections and also providing Clipta in a list of sources for video on Topic Pages.

Do you have a website with video on it? Do you want to add relevant and related videos from around the web on your site? Then Clipta’s video search API can work for just as it has for many other Clipta partners. For more information, please visit our Clipta API overview .

About Kosmix (source: CrunchBase):

Location: Mountain View, CA
Funding: $55M
Description: Kosmix is a guide to the Web. The site lets users explore the Web by topic, presenting a dashboard of relevant videos, photos, news, commentary, opinion, communities and links to related topics. The Co-Founders are Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman.

About Clipta:

Clipta is one of the largest video indexes on the web, and a destination for Internet users to find, discover, share, and interact with videos. Clipta is an intelligent video search engine that improves the online search experience by helping users find the most relevant videos from any source worldwide. With a combination of new technologies including deep crawling and video search algorithms, Clipta quickly collects content and delivers targeted and tailored video search results. Beyond the ability to search for content, Clipta has create multiple platforms that allow users and web publishers to discover, promote, share and interact with videos from across the web. Clipta was founded in April 2008, and has launched in 18 international countries.

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