blinkx Announces Agreements to Distribute Premium Content From the BBC, CBS and The Weather Channel
blinkx, the world´s largest video search engine, today announced
content partnerships with the BBC, CBS and The Weather Channel.
"We´re thrilled to be adding this exciting programming to our
service," said Suranga Chandratillake, founder and CEO, blinkx.
"Through these partnerships, we´re able to further our commitment to
our users by offering them the most comprehensive index of premium
video content on the Web today."
As the pioneer in video search technology, blinkx serves more than
50 million unique visitors every month. blinkx has built a reputation
as the smartest way to search new forms of online content such as
video. With more than 220 partners and 18 million hours of indexed
video and audio content, including favorite TV moments, news clips,
short documentaries, music videos, video blogs and more, blinkx uses
advanced speech recognition technology to deliver results that are
more accurate and reliable than standard metadata-based keyword
searches.
About blinkx
blinkx plc (LSE AIM:BLNX) is the world´s most comprehensive video
search engine. Today, blinkx has indexed more than 18 million hours of
audio, video, viral and TV content, and made it fully searchable and
available on demand. blinkx´s founders set out to solve a significant
challenge - as TV and user-generated content on the Web explode,
keyword-based search technologies only scratch the surface. blinkx´s
patented search technologies listen to - and even see - the Web,
helping users enjoy a breadth and accuracy of search results not
available elsewhere. In addition, blinkx powers the video search for
many of the world´s most frequented sites. blinkx is based in San
Francisco and London. More information is available at www.blinkx.com.