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29 Oct 2007 07:01

Blinkx Plc29 October 2007 blinkx Advances Lead in Video Search, Surpasses New Milestone With Over 18 Million Hours of Content and More Than 220 Media Partnerships blinkx Now Processing Over 4 Million Daily Searches for Online TV and Video SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. - October 29, 2007 - blinkx, the world's largest videosearch engine, today reached a new milestone: with more than 220 mediapartnerships and indexing over 18,000,000 hours of video, audio, viral and TVcontent, blinkx is the top destination for searching video on the Web. "We continue to sign top quality partners in popular areas such as sports andentertainment content," said Suranga Chandratillake, founder and CEO, blinkx. "New agreements this quarter include CelebTV, Goal.com and PromQueen, and withthe launch of our native language search for French, German and Spanish TV andvideo content, we are furthering our commitment to offering consumers thelargest index and the most effective video search technology available on theWeb." In addition to improving the video search experience for consumers, withintroduction of AdHoc, the first contextual advertising platform for video,blinkx is delivering solutions to help media companies monetize their content onthe Internet, attracting name brand advertisers such as Nokia, BestBuy, GeneralMotors and ABC. As a pioneer in video search technology, blinkx has built a reputation as themost intuitive way to search new forms of online content such as video. blinkxuses advanced speech recognition technology to deliver results that are moreaccurate and reliable than standard metadata-based keyword searches. About blinkxblinkx plc (LSE AIM: BLNX) is the world's most comprehensive video searchengine. 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 anduser-generated content on the Web explode, keyword-based search technologiesonly scratch the surface. blinkx's patented search technologies listen to - andeven see - the Web, helping users enjoy a breadth and accuracy of search resultsnot available elsewhere. In addition, blinkx powers the video search for many ofthe world's most frequented sites. blinkx is based in San Francisco and London.More information is available at www.blinkx.com. Press Contacts: Rachel PetersenOutCast Communications+1 (415) 392-8282Rachel@outcastpr.com Clare GaynerBite Communications+44 (0)20 8834 3454Clare.Gayner@bitepr.com This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange