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19 Mar 2008 07:01

Blinkx Plc19 March 2008 Tune in with blinkx beat: blinkx Brings Personalized Video Bulletins Straight to the Desktop Users can surf customized channels and video walls of news, entertainment and sports headlines SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. - March 19, 2008 - blinkx, the world's largest videosearch engine, today announced the availability of blinkx beat(www.blinkxbeat.com), an innovative desktop application that allows users tostay up-to-date on the latest sports, entertainment and breaking news videosfrom around the Web, without ever having to search or open up a Web browser.blinkx beat allows users to create personalized news channels and custom videowalls to watch regularly updated videos about topics of their choice. "With blinkx beat, our users can channel surf straight from their desktop. Theycan get up-to-the-minute news, sports and entertainment content without everhaving to search for it," said Suranga Chandratillake, founder and CEO ofblinkx. "blinkx indexes one of the most comprehensive repositories of newsvideos in the world, and blinkx beat makes it easy for users to tap into thiswealth without ever having to search or open a Web browser." blinkx beat accesses blinkx's extensive index of news video content to bringusers the most comprehensive footage from around the Web. Users can createchannels and get their daily dose of news on any topic they choose from thelatest in presidential campaigns, celebrity gossip, weather or sports highlightsstraight from the desktop. As the pioneer in video search technology, blinkx has built a reputation as thesmartest way to search new forms of online content such as video. With more than220 partners and 18 million hours of indexed video and audio content, includingfavorite TV moments, news clips, short documentaries, music videos, video blogsand more, blinkx uses advanced speech-recognition technology to deliver resultsthat are more accurate and reliable than standard metadata-based keywordsearches. About blinkx blinkx 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:Tim TurpinSparkpr+1 (415) 321 1894tturpin@sparkpr.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