blinkx today reached a new milestone: with 14,000,000 hours of video, audio, viral and TV content and more than 200 partnerships.
“The popularity of online video is at an all time high,” said Suranga Chandratillake, founder and CEO, blinkx. “We are not only offering users the largest index and the best way to find online video, but we’re developing solutions to help media companies monetize and manage their content.”
Following a successful IPO on the London Stock Exchange (AiM) in May, blinkx announced a global partnership with digital entertainment services company RealNetworks, in which blinkx powers video search for the new RealPlayer 11. In recent months, the company also announced technology partnerships with search leader Ask.com and with Lycos MIX, a platform that lets users create video playlists.
Originally posted on July 23, 2007 @ 11:30 pm
Man, did a search on ‘sex’ without the safe filter on — Think at least half of that 14,000,000 hours of video is hardcore porn.
Looks like they have tons of adult advertising there too, always key to generating tons of easy website revenue…. God bless the internet and the companies that take absolutely no measures to blocking minors from watching xxx content..
I looked at Blinkx a few months ago, after NewTeeVee did a story on who had the most video clips. I searched on “advanced search” with nothing in the box, as the NewTeeVee people said to do, and got back 2.5 million clips.
Now if I do it, they seem to have altered “advanced search” so that nothing comes up when nothing is in the box. I searched on “a” and found that they have 11million plus clips.
This is far less than either Truveo/Searchvideo.com which has 22 million clips or Dabble which has 15 million clips.
I think Blinkx is fantastic at hype, but no good at actual search, especially considering all their technology comes from Autonomy, which is enterprise search.
I think they are pulling the wool over your eyes.
To clarify on their numbers, blinkx takes in lots of news content, which scrolls off after 7-10 days, and that’s why the 2.5 million number was more accurate in April. They were showing the actual number of clips available. The 11m number is, I think, padded with clips that you can’t actually watch because they’ve gone away.
Note also that they went out on the AIM penny stock market, with no revenue to speak of. That is the height of irresponsibility but considering they get all their search technology from Autonomy, and Autonomy owned 90% of them, in exchange for that, you can see why as Autonomy is a big company which needed money back for the $10 million they put into Blinkx 5 years ago.