<s>
Singingfish	B-Application
was	O
an	O
audio/video	O
search	B-Application
engine	I-Application
that	O
powered	O
audio	O
video	O
search	O
for	O
Windows	B-Device
Media	I-Device
Player	I-Device
,	O
WindowsMedia.com,	O
RealOne/RealPlayer	O
,	O
Real	O
Guide	O
,	O
AOL	O
Search	O
,	O
Dogpile	B-Application
,	O
Metacrawler	B-Application
and	O
Singingfish.com,	O
among	O
others	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Launched	O
in	O
2000	O
,	O
it	O
was	O
one	O
of	O
the	O
earliest	O
and	O
longest	O
lived	O
search	B-Application
engines	I-Application
dedicated	O
to	O
multimedia	O
content	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Acquired	O
in	O
2003	O
by	O
AOL	O
,	O
it	O
was	O
slowly	O
folded	O
into	O
the	O
AOL	O
search	O
offerings	O
and	O
all	O
web	O
hits	O
from	O
RMC	O
TV	O
to	O
Singingfish	B-Application
were	O
being	O
redirected	O
to	O
AOL	O
Video	O
and	O
as	O
of	O
February	O
2007	O
Singingfish	B-Application
had	O
ceased	O
to	O
exist	O
as	O
a	O
separate	O
service	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Singingfish	B-Application
powered	O
audio	O
search	O
continues	O
to	O
live	O
on	O
for	O
the	O
time	O
being	O
at	O
and	O
other	O
AOL	O
properties	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Singingfish	B-Application
powered	O
video	O
search	O
is	O
no	O
longer	O
publicly	O
available	O
and	O
is	O
now	O
being	O
re-directed	O
to	O
AOL	O
Video	O
Search	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Singingfish	B-Application
employed	O
its	O
own	O
web	B-Application
crawler	I-Application
,	O
Asterias	O
,	O
designed	O
specifically	O
to	O
ferret	O
out	O
audio	O
and	O
video	O
links	O
across	O
the	O
web	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Many	O
of	O
the	O
multimedia	O
URLs	O
used	O
as	O
seeds	O
for	O
Singingfish	B-Application
's	O
crawlers	O
and	O
annotation	O
engines	O
came	O
from	O
cache	O
logs	O
from	O
the	O
NSF-funded	O
National	O
Laboratory	O
for	O
Applied	O
Network	O
Research	O
(	O
NLANR	O
)	O
IRCache	O
Web	O
Caching	O
project	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Singingfish	B-Application
was	O
founded	O
in	O
mid-1999	O
by	O
,	O
,	O
,	O
and	O
Mike	O
Behlke	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
group	O
photo	O
on	O
the	O
left	O
was	O
taken	O
in	O
Singingfish	B-Application
's	O
first	O
office	O
on	O
Seattle	O
's	O
Capitol	O
Hill	O
on	O
January	O
24	O
,	O
2000	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
public	O
alpha	O
version	O
of	O
the	O
search	B-Application
service	I-Application
was	O
unveiled	O
at	O
Streaming	O
Media	O
East	O
in	O
New	O
York	O
City	O
in	O
June	O
2000	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
By	O
the	O
Fall	O
of	O
2000	O
,	O
Singingfish	B-Application
had	O
grown	O
to	O
over	O
50	O
employees	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Singingfish	B-Application
announced	O
its	O
first	O
customer	O
,	O
Zurich-based	O
Internet	O
AG	O
,	O
in	O
December	O
2000	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Singingfish	B-Application
Search	O
first	O
appeared	O
on	O
Internet	O
AG	O
's	O
"	O
Swiss	O
Search	O
"	O
and	O
Infospace	O
's	O
Dogpile	B-Application
and	O
Metacrawler	B-Application
sites	O
late	O
in	O
the	O
summer	O
of	O
2001	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
By	O
this	O
time	O
Singingfish	B-Application
was	O
clearly	O
the	O
dominant	O
multimedia	O
search	B-Application
engine	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
the	O
fall	O
of	O
2001	O
,	O
RealNetworks	O
signed	O
a	O
deal	O
with	O
Singingfish	B-Application
for	O
the	O
latter	O
to	O
provide	O
audio	O
and	O
video	O
search	O
for	O
RealOne	B-Application
Player	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
January	O
2003	O
,	O
Microsoft	O
signed	O
a	O
similar	O
deal	O
,	O
in	O
this	O
case	O
to	O
provide	O
audio	O
and	O
video	O
search	O
for	O
Windows	B-Device
Media	I-Device
Player	I-Device
and	O
WindowsMedia.com	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Singingfish	B-Application
downsized	O
dramatically	O
under	O
Thomson	O
multimedia	O
(	O
Summer	O
2001	O
)	O
and	O
then	O
slowly	O
continued	O
to	O
shrink	O
in	O
size	O
through	O
its	O
acquisition	O
by	O
AOL	O
in	O
October	O
2003	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
However	O
,	O
Thomson	O
multimedia	O
continued	O
to	O
support	O
research	O
and	O
development	O
into	O
multimedia	O
metadata	O
standards	O
such	O
as	O
MPEG-7	O
that	O
were	O
incorporated	O
into	O
Singingfish	B-Application
technology	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Soon	O
after	O
acquiring	O
Singingfish	B-Application
,	O
AOL	O
integrated	O
its	O
audio/video	O
search	B-Application
service	I-Application
into	O
AOL	O
Search	O
,	O
adding	O
yet	O
another	O
big-name	O
to	O
the	O
stable	O
of	O
search	O
products	O
powered	O
by	O
Singingfish	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
of	O
August	O
2006	O
,	O
Singingfish	B-Application
continued	O
to	O
power	O
multimedia	O
search	O
for	O
both	O
Microsoft	O
and	O
Real	O
,	O
and	O
was	O
being	O
fully	O
integrated	O
into	O
the	O
AOL	O
search	O
and	O
directed	O
media	O
business	O
unit	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
last	O
members	O
of	O
the	O
Singingfish	B-Application
staff	O
were	O
laid	O
off	O
in	O
December	O
2006	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Since	O
February	O
7	O
,	O
2007	O
all	O
web	O
hits	O
to	O
Singingfish	B-Application
have	O
been	O
redirected	O
to	O
AOL	O
Video	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
content	O
providers	O
below	O
added	O
their	O
audio	O
and	O
video	O
content	O
to	O
Singingfish	B-Application
's	O
search	O
index	O
using	O
regular	O
feeds	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
addition	O
to	O
providing	O
high	O
quality	O
meta	O
data	O
to	O
be	O
indexed	O
,	O
these	O
direct	O
feeds	O
also	O
enabled	O
Singingfish	B-Application
to	O
produce	O
highly	O
current	O
results	O
for	O
news	O
related	O
queries	O
.	O
</s>
