Tag archive: Blinkx

While high-bandwidth connections and new compression schemes have allowed video to blossom all over the Web, methods for searching through the audio-visual medium have lagged behind. Brief clip titles and a handful of keywords are all most searchers have to go on. The Web site blinkx wants to change that with the methods it has cooked up for a new video search engine, known as “blinkx Remote.” According to blinkx, Remote is… Read More

Official announcements aren't expected until the close of markets today, but software giant Microsoft is expected to announce today that it has inked a deal with online video site blinx to power video search features on the company's MSN and Live.com Internet services. AOL, Lycos, Reuters, PR Newswire, MTV, and many other companies have selected blinkx technology to power their own video and media search functions, or entered… Read More

blinkx, a multimedia search engine company, today announced a new service called blinkx.tv To Go, which will allow users the ability to search for specific video content online and synchronize it to their iTunes or a portable video player such as the 5G iPod. blinkx says this is regardless of format. blinkx.tv To Go, said blinkx,

San Francisco-based Blinkx debuted a free, novel service which uses speech recognition technology to scan and index radio and television programs available via the Internet, and deliver search results to users via the Web or via customized RSS files called SmartFeeds. The Blinkx service, currently in a beta form, offers video from mainstream news sources such as CNN, Reuters, NBC, CNN, Forbes, E!, iFilm, The New York times, ITN, and C-SPAN,… Read More