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30 May 2007 16:00

blinkx (AIM:BLNX), the world's largest video search engine, todayannounced that it has reached a new milestone by indexing over12,000,000 hours of audio, video, viral and TV content, and making itfully searchable for free to users on the Web. £ This new milestone marks a significant increase over just monthsago and is the result of constant growth through successful spideringof the Web, and a host of new partnerships. £ "If you had 10 TVs running 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, it wouldtake you 137 years to watch all of the content in our index," saidSuranga Chandratillake, founder and CEO, blinkx. "Thousands of newpeople try blinkx.com every day - and I think it is safe to say wehave something for everyone at this stage!" £ With its patented technology that includes speech-to-texttranscription and visual analysis, blinkx is the largest and mostadvanced video search engine on the Web today. Other video searchtechnologies that are based on metadata are either unable tounderstand the complexities of rich media, or require manual effort,which makes it impossible to build an index as large as the blinkxindex. £ blinkx has added many features over the past year to improve theuser experience with video on the Web. For example, blinkx Remoteleverages blinkx's unique speech-to-text transcription and indexingtechnology to quickly identify full-length TV shows by season andepisode, and corroborates search results with information from trustedonline sources such as Wikipedia and IMDB.com. In addition, blinkx It- which earned blinkx a DEMOgod Award at DEMO 2007 earlier this year -is a free and simple tool that enables bloggers to insert relevantvideo streams into their blogs, and casual website builders to spiceup their sites with video. £ As the pioneer in video search technology, blinkx has built areputation as the smartest way to find rich media online, and now,with an index of 12 million hours of searchable video, it has cementedits position as the premier destination for video search on the Web. £ About blinkx £ blinkx (London AIM:BLNX) is the world's most comprehensive videosearch engine. Today, blinkx has indexed more than 12,000,000 hours ofaudio, video, viral and TV content, and made it fully searchable andavailable on demand. blinkx's founders set out to solve a significantchallenge - as TV and user-generated content on the Web explode,keyword-based search technologies only scratch the surface. blinkx'spatented search technologies listen to - and even see - the Web,helping users enjoy a breadth and accuracy of search results notavailable elsewhere. In addition, blinkx powers the video search formany of the world's most frequented sites. blinkx is based in SanFrancisco and London. More information is available at www.blinkx.com Copyright Business Wire 2007