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6 Feb 2008 07:01

Blinkx Plc06 February 2008 blinkx Partners with Estates Gazette TV to Offer Users Online Real Estate Television Timely and relevant U.K. real estate business TV programming is now available at www.blinkx.com SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. - February 6, 2008 - blinkx, the world's largest videosearch engine, today announced a partnership with Estates Gazette TV (EG TV) togive viewers free access to an expansive library of topical broadcasts andstories affecting the UK property industry. Through the partnership, EstatesGazette's Internet TV channel will be fully searchable and playable atwww.blinkx.com. Leveraging its unique AdHoc platform, blinkx will also placecontextually relevant advertising against the footage, and will share resultingadvertising revenue with Estates Gazette TV. EG TV includes an online archive of stories with recent programmes featuring theUK housing crisis, industry reaction to Real Estate Investment Trusts and theimpact of the credit crunch on the market. "It is imperative for property buyers and sellers to stay informed on theever-evolving and unpredictable real estate market," said SurangaChandratillake, founder and CEO, blinkx. "blinkx's on-demand platform will allowEG TV's viewers to search for and watch real estate news without having to workaround a traditional television schedule." "We are thrilled to partner with blinkx," said Geoff Hadwick, publishingdirector, Estates Gazette Group. "blinkx's unique technology allows us to betterserve our users and provides a great platform to reach a global audience." 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. About EG TV Launched in 2004 to provide topical news and interviews, EG TV is a free accesssite provided by the Estates Gazette Group, part of Reed Business Informationand the largest provider of commercial property news and information in Europe. The EG Group's flagship title, Estates Gazette, is complemented by the web-basedservices EGi, EG PropertyLink and EG TV. The Group also includes EuroPropertyand AsiaProperty, representing the Group's European and Asian position while EGCapital is a recent addition covering the real estate finance markets. The EGGroup events portfolio has grown substantially over the last three years and noworganises the key annual industry awards and conferences. For more information, please visit www.estatesgazettegroup.com. blinkx Press Contacts: Tim TurpinSparkpr+1 (415) 321 1894tturpin@sparkpr.com Clare Gayner Bite Communications+44 (0)20 8834 3454Clare.Gayner@bitepr.com EG TV Press Contact: Vibeke KelwayEstates Gazette Group+44 (0)20 7911 1859vibeke.kelway@rbi.co.uk This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange