[Web4lib] Blinkx: Most Advanced Video Search Engine

[Gerry Mckiernan]

Colleagues/

blinkx [ http://blinkx.com/]: A Meta-Video Search Engine

blinkx is the world's largest and most advanced video search engine. Fed by automatic spiders that crawl the web for audio video content and content partnerships with _over 200 leading content and media companies_, blinkx uses visual analysis and speech recognition to better understand rich media content. Users can search for content, create personal TV channels that automatically splice relevant content together. blinkx is a privately-held firm, based in San Francisco and London and was founded in early 2004 by Suranga Chandratillake. 

[ http://blinkx.com/about ]

***Leading content and media companies***

[ BBC News, CNN, Comedy Channel,  YouTube, History Channel, NYTimes, Other Usual Suspects ]

White Paper 

[ http://cdn-99.blinkx.com/store/images/docs/blinkx_TV_White_Paper_v1.0.pdf ]

FAQ

[ http://blinkx.com/faq ]

NYTimes: Millions of Videos, and Now a Way to Search Inside Them

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"Today, owing to the proliferation of large video files, video accounts for more than 60 percent of the traffic on the Internet, according to CacheLogic, a company in Cambridge, England, that sells “media delivery systems” to Internet service providers. “I imagine that within two years it will be 98 percent,” says Hui Zhang, a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh."

[ http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/25/business/yourmoney/25slip.html ]

/Gerry

Gerry Mckiernan
Science and Technology Librarian
Iowa State University Library
Ames Ia 50011

gerrymck at iastate.edu