blinkx
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| blinkx Inc. | |
|---|---|
| Type | Public (LSE: BLNX) |
| Founded |  San Francisco, California  Cambridge, United Kingdom(July, 2004) |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, USA |
| Key people | Suranga Chandratillake, CEO |
| Industry | Internet services |
| Website | blinkx.com |
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 18 million hours indexed and agreements with over 242 content companies.
[edit] History
- In 2003, Suranga Chandratillake, a Sri Lankan and former Autonomy Corporation employee, founded blinkx as a toolbar for web search, specializing in video.[1],. Microsoft Corp. in October 2006 agreed to have an option to use Blinkx technology to power the video search on some parts of its MSN service and Live.com.[2] Other sites it powers include Lycos, Infospace and parts of AOL.
[edit] References
- ^ Blinkx' original web page. Internet Archive (2005-05-14). Retrieved on 2007-07-12.
- ^ "Microsoft Signs Blinkx to Video Search", Jupiter Online Media, 2006-10-09. Retrieved on 2007-07-08.
