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Searchles
URL	http://www.searchles.com/
Type of site	Hybrid (Social Networking & Social Search)
Registration	Free
Owner	Searchles, Inc.
Created by	Chris Seline

Searchles is a private company headquartered in Washington D.C. and founded by Chris Seline, a John Hopkins University graduate who has been in the search engine field for almost a decade. Since Nov. 2006, this company has been backed up by Elias Shams, the man behind Telezoo, who during the booming Dotcom era in 2000 found that the telecommunications industry looked pretty similar to a wild zoo which must be tamed by the users themselves.

Recently, Searchles has begun to add more social networking features to their community-based search, differentiating itself from other similar companies such as del.icio.us, Digg, etc. In March 2007, Searchles released an extra feature they call Searchles TV which allows users to mashup different videos from multiple sources, such as MySpace, YouTube, Google Video, Blip tv or Grouper, into one back-to-back channel. Searchles TV is the first feature released in the world of Web2.0 which makes it possible for users to share their video collection with other users in a TV Channel format.

[edit] Sony's Grouper vs Searchles TV Controversy

The release of this feature prompted Sony's Grouper to hand down a cease and desist letter - citing that the user experience with the content was substantially altered and that the format obscured who owned the trademarked content. In reality this legal action fell under the larger debate about the ability of entertainment companies to maintain control over the use of video content and in this particular case, the lawsuit never materialized.

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