Dear TopCoder Community:

I need to bring up a very important point that will impact all of you of have used the name Truveo in your application.

When it comes time to review and rank your application, and finally award the $100,000 in prize money, you need to know that "THE NAME OF YOUR APPLICATION SHOULD NOT CONTAIN THE WORD TRUVEO BECAUSE THAT INDICATES INACCURATELY THAT TRUVEO ENDORSES YOUR APPLICATION. THIS IS IN VIOLATION OF THE LICENSE AND CONTEST RULES."

As mentioned in a previous blog post, attribution is one of the requirements when it comes to removing the daily query limit. For those of you who have used the name Truveo anywhere in your application, my recommendation would be to simply replace the name Truveo with our standard "Powered by Truveo" Logo as described here:

http://developer.truveo.com/TruveoTerms.php
http://developer.truveo.com/APITerms.php

If you have any special requirements, we will work with you to find a solution as we have done with some of you already. Please do not hesitate to contact anyone of us at Top Coder or at Truveo if you have any questions.

Thank you,

Arnaud Mauvais
Truveo, Inc.

Did you know that most of the search traffic going against the Truveo API comes from outside of the United States?
That's right, over 2/3 of our traffic in fact!

And this community should know as you represent many countries.

In fact, when you look at the applications that have been submitted for this Truveo TopCoder challenge, you will notice that the Philippines is the leading country, followed by Argentina, India, Columbia, Poland, the United States, Nigeria, Egypt, South Africa ...

Since traffic is a key criteria, you may want to consider an international version of your existing application. The only requirements in term of language is that you submit documentation in English. (The application itself does not need to be in English.)

We'd like to strongly encourage you to start coding and distributing International versions of these applications, or write new ones that are more targeted for the local markets that you know so well.

Good luck, bonne chance, حظ سعيد, Viel Glück, Buena suerte, Удачи, 祝您好运, Lykke til, ...

Arnaud

Greetings:

As you start distributing your applications, widget, gadgets, Web sites to a wider audience, you are starting to enjoy an increase in traffic: Congratulations!
But you are also most likely aware of the fact that every app_id is limited to 10K queries per day by default.

So what can you do about it? Very simple:

We will increase the query limit on your API Account as necessary under the following conditions:

(1) your site must comply with our acceptable use guidelines; see http://developer.truveo.com/APITerms.php

(2) you must include 'powered by Truveo' attribution on your site; see http://developer.truveo.com/TruveoTerms.php Also note that the logo should be clickable and should point to www.truveo.com (or to the local version of truveo.com if you are not located in the United States, so for instance if you/your users are in Spain, the logo should redirect the users to es.truveo.com)
If you expose a search bar that goes against the truveo index, you should also place a 'Powered by Truveo' Logo next to that search bar.

(3) you must provide phone and email for technical and business contacts (you can update your API Account information yourself).

You can then send me an email, and we will then do a final review and increase the limit.

Arnaud

P.S.: Here are a few examples of attribution on Web sites that have implemented the Truveo API
http://www.perfspot.com/video2/
http://izlesene.com/
http://www.findinternettv.com/
http://search.icq.com/