New York - Time Warner's AOL on Thursday announced the launch of new video portal sites in Canada, India and Taiwan, with plans to expand with additional sites in the U.K., France and Germany in the fall. The launches follow on the international release of AOL's Truveo video search engine.

San Francisco - Video search engine Truveo said on Thursday that its index now includes more than 100 million online videos -- a 20-fold increase from a year ago. Based on current growth rates, the company expects top one billion searchable videos by 2009.

Burlingame, Calif. - AOL said on Wednesday that it has launched its Truveo video search engine in eight countries, including France, Germany, India, Japan, Korea, Spain, Taiwan and the U.K. The company also announced plans to launch additional sites for Australia, Brazil, Italy, Mexico, The Netherlands, Russia and Turkey over the next two month. AOL acquired Burlingame, Calif.-based Truveo in January 2006.

Dulles, Va. - AOL said on Thursday that it has launched a new version of video site Truveo.com. The company, which acquired Truveo over a year ago, said that it has completely rebuilt the site, which features both user-generated clips and professionally produced content. In an attempt to avoid the kinds of copyright issues that have plagued sites like Google's YouTube in recent months, AOL said that Truveo.com in many cases will direct users to content owners' sites to view videos. Truveo also powers video search tools for AOL's properties, as well as Microsoft, CNET's Search.com, Excite and numerous other sites.