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28 Feb 2008 07:02

Blinkx Plc28 February 2008 blinkx Announces Agreements to Distribute Premium Content from the BBC, CBS and The Weather Channel Popular programming fully searchable and free to audiences through www.blinkx.com SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. - February 28, 2008 - blinkx, the world's largest videosearch engine, today announced content partnerships with the BBC, CBS and TheWeather Channel. "We're thrilled to be adding this exciting programming to our service," saidSuranga Chandratillake, founder and CEO, blinkx. "Through these partnerships,we're able to further our commitment to our users by offering them the mostcomprehensive index of premium video content on the Web today." As the pioneer in video search technology, blinkx serves more than 50 millionunique visitors every month. blinkx has built a reputation as the smartest wayto search new forms of online content such as video. With more than 220 partnersand 18 million hours of indexed video and audio content, including favorite TVmoments, news clips, short documentaries, music videos, video blogs and more,blinkx uses advanced speech recognition technology to deliver results that aremore accurate and reliable than standard metadata-based keyword searches. 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