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9 Jul 2007 07:00

Blinkx Plc09 July 2007 SESAM.SE PARTNERS WITH BLINKX TO DELIVER NEW VIDEO SEARCH CAPABILITIES Partnership combines blinkx's index of over 12 million hours of video contentwith Sesam.se's range of Swedish services to offer users access to more complete and relevant results San Francisco, CALIF. - July 9, 2007 - blinkx, the world's largest video searchengine, today announced a syndication agreement with Sesam.se, one of Sweden'sleading search engines. Under the terms of the agreement, blinkx will powervideo search for the Sesam.se website, combining results from blinkx's index ofthe Web with Swedish video content. blinkx will generate revenue based on videosearches that are conducted. Sesam.se enables users to search Swedish and international Websites, pictures,news, encyclopedic articles and more. Sesam.se combines several differentsearch services and presents the results from relevant services, resulting inmore up-to-date and complete information for users. Sesam.se is part of theNorwegian media corporation Schibsted. "We are pleased to be powering video search for Sesam.se and deliver relevantvideo results to users," said Suranga Chandratillake, founder and CEO of blinkx."Through blinkx's patented speech and pattern recognition technologies, we areable to provide the best video results on the Web. By combining blinkx's indexwith Swedish local content, users will have an even more complete picture ofcontent available online." "We aim to give users the best and most relevant results possible by combiningvarious search services," said Jorgen Eng, Head of Product Development,Sesam.se. "By teaming up with blinkx, we now offer our users the best videosearch capabilities available on the Web today." 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 than100 partners and twelve 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 todeliver results that are more accurate and reliable than standard metadata-basedkeyword searches. About Sesame.se Sesam.se is now Sweden's leading search engine. Launched in November 2006.Sesam.se enables users to search Swedish and international websites, pictures,news, encyclopaedic articles and more. Sesam.se is part of the Norwegian mediacorporation Schibsted. Other Schibsted-properties include several of Sweden'stop 10 websites and two of the nation's leading newspapers. About blinkx blinkx (London AIM: BLNX) is the world's most comprehensive video search engine.Today, blinkx has indexed more than 12,000,000 hours of audio, video, viral andTV content, and made it fully searchable and available on demand. blinkx'sfounders set out to solve a significant challenge - as TV and user-generatedcontent on the Web explode, keyword-based search technologies only scratch thesurface. blinkx's patented search technologies listen to - and even see - theWeb, helping users enjoy a breadth and accuracy of search results not availableelsewhere. In addition, blinkx powers the video search for many of the world'smost frequented sites. blinkx is based in San Francisco and London. Moreinformation is available at www.blinkx.com Press Contact: Rachel Petersen Outcast Communications 415-392-8282 Rachel@outcastpr.com Edward Bridges / Haya Chelhot Financial Dynamics +44 20 7831 3113 blinkx@fd.com This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange