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Blinkx (London AIM:BLNX.L) is an Internet search engine for video and audio content, based in San Francisco, that allows searching and classification of audio files, video clips and streaming media. Blinkx's video search engine differs by using speech recognition to listen to the audio component of the video content, and then uses both the phonetic and text transcripts to match content with search queries. blinkx also indexes and searches podcasts and video blogs. It claims to be the largest deep indexed Video search engine with 26 million hours indexed and agreements with over 350 content companies.
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Blinkx (London AIM:BLNX.L) is an Internet search engine for video and audio content, based in San Francisco, that allows searching and classification of audio files, video clips and streaming media. Blinkx's video search engine differs by using speech recognition to listen to the audio component of the video content, and then uses both the phonetic and text transcripts to match content with search queries. blinkx also indexes and searches podcasts and video blogs. It claims to be the largest deep indexed Video search engine with 26 million hours indexed and agreements with over 350 content companies.
History
- 2004: Suranga Chandratillake, a Sri Lankan and former Autonomy Corporation employee, founded blinkx as a toolbar for web search, specializing in video.
- December 2004: blinkx launches audio and video search engine.
- July 2005: blinkx launches SmartFeed, an RSS feed for video links.
- June 2006: blinkx reaches 4 million hours of searchable video content.
- October 2006: Microsoft Corp. agrees to use Blinkx technology to power the video search on some parts of its MSN service and Live.com. Other sites it powers include Lycos, Infospace, the RealPlayer and parts of AOL.
- June 2007: blinkx launches contextual video advertising platform named AdHoc.
- March 2008: blinkx releases the blinkx beat video screensaver.
- April 2008: The company launches its broadband TV application.
- August 2008: Launch of blinkx Remote, a directory of full-length TV shows online for the US and UK.























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