Perfect Video Search?
February 22, 2010
I wrangled a free meal from two Perfect Search engineers. I learned that Perfect Search was providing the technology for i.TV, pronounced “i dot TV.”
I have written about Perfect Search’s robust, high-performance search and content processing system previously. You may know that the company was founded in 2007 by veterans of the search industry. Perfect Search has achieved significant, game-changing, patent-protected innovation in the core processes of search. The Perfect Search system can chop down the number of servers needed to manipulate petabytes of data by an order of magnitude. The result is increases in indexing and query speeds and throughput and dramatically lower infrastructure costs. Perfect Search products include a Database Search Appliance for Oracle, a OneBox Extender for the Google Search Appliance, and search for Backup and Storage solutions.
I am not “into video” so I was not familiar with i.TV. The company offers an application for the iPhone and iPod touch that helps people discover, share and consume media. With i.TV, users can browse hundreds of thousands of up-to-date local TV and movie listings, as well as a catalog of hundreds of thousands of TV and movie titles available for download and DVD rental. i.TV also includes community features and allows people to write reviews, rate shows and recommend shows to followers and friends on Twitter and Facebook. i.TV enables users to watch movie trailers and television previews, purchase movie tickets, manage their Netflix queues, and use their iPhone or iPod touch as a remote control.
My host, Ken Ebert, one of Perfect Search’s senior technologist, told me:
We have been able to replace the native search functionality of the MySQL application and integrate the Perfect Search engine into the i.TV application and have high-throughput functionality for indexing of new data and querying of the multiple MySQL databases that i.TV maintains. Companies that have multiple relational databases struggle to index and search these content repositories in a timely, cost-effective manner, especially when the query involves complex database joins. We are able to search over a billion records on a single Database Search Appliance. We are excited to be able to be involved with a company that has such a great product and that is poised to have significant growth.
Mr. Ebert explained that the Perfect Search team was delighted to to be installed as part of one of the top downloaded iPhone applications.
We downloaded the app and were able to locate specific shows quickly and easily. When I travel, I will be able to catch my History Channel favorite, “Engineering an Empire.” The i.TV app is available at the Apple Store and in the iTunes store and is a top download. Perfect Search brings order to the untidy world of programming databases. From the iPhone there is snappy performance for basic and advanced search.
Besides matching up geo-codes to determine the customer location, Perfect Search is handling some complex database joins, allowing i.TV customers to search by TV Network, actor name, or TV Show title with blistering response times. Perfect Search is also providing queries of several TV and movie listing databases.
Stephen E Arnold, February 22, 2010
I did get a free meal, but I was not otherwise compensated for this write up. I will report good food and fine company as a payoff to the Economic Research Service, a unit of the Department of Agriculture. Adhere Solutions is working with Perfect Search. My son is a smart lad in my opinion.
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you can always watch movies on youtube, though most free movies on youtube are not the full length ones ..
there are many new movies to watch this month, i would be going to the cinema and video rental store again “–