We are the addicts of Web and videos. Our average age is 25.
We aim at spreading worldwide a service that we can be immersed in.

Fooooo launched a βversion in March 2007; today Fooooo is the most used video search engine in Japan. Currently, it is possible to search videos from about 130 video/movie sharing sites in a lump.
Fooooo’s crawl robot is customized to each video/movie sharing site.
The video information obtained by crawling are divided into 18 categories; users can see the ranking of each category, search within the category, and so on.Additionally, the videos uploaded are reflected in the index of new video at earliest of 10 minutes.

In pages such as search-results page or ranking page, there are video thumbnails that can adjust the play speed in 7 levels (from 0.5times to 30times faster). Also, by using the function, “Quick-Play,” which enables users to view the video within the ranking page without switching the window, Fooooo lets the users search videos much more efficiently compared to other video/movie search engines.

Fooooo offers its service in 11 languages, and due to these high qualities, Fooooo was chosen as one of the top 10s of video search engines.
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_10_video_search_engines.php

One focus of our technology is the ranking system “Sonar” that we, the Bank of innovation.Inc developed.

“Sonar” searches neither the “Most Recent” nor the “Most Viewed;” it searches videos that are “Most Popular.” Therefore, even videos from a relatively minor video/movie sharing site can rank in high if the radar of “Sonar” perceives it as popular.

In case of web videos, popular videos from non-popular sites never rank in high in ranking sites such as Billboard. The question is, “Is this fair?”
For example, if we talk about music, singers such as Beatles and Britney Spears are necessary, however, don’t the users also want to know about independent bands that are only popular in particular area? We believe that one of the purposes of the ranking is to present the users some interesting videos that they might not know yet.

By using this ranking system, “Sonar,” we would like the users to find out videos that large amount of people watch and also videos that a group of people are starting to get interested in.

We would like to form an alliance with companies that are not from Japan, including the venture capitals. We have already formed an alliance with a company from Vietnam, and the expansion of Fooooo in Asia is already starting. Things like business and money are important as well, however, our most important concern is to let many people know about Fooooo so that they can use it. In order to achieve our goal, we are looking for companies that can work together with us.