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25 Jun 2007 07:02

Blinkx Plc25 June 2007 InfoSpace Partners with blinkx to Offer Video Search Functionality on Award-Winning Dogpile.com Users Can Now Search More Than 12 Million Hours of TV and Video Clips Bellevue, Wash., June 25, 2007 - InfoSpace, Inc. (NASDAQ:INSP), a leadingdeveloper of proprietary metasearch technologies, today formally announced apartnership with blinkx, the world's largest video search engine, to offer videosearch capabilities for InfoSpace's family of metasearch brands includingDogpile.com, the award-winning search engine which returns top results fromGoogle, Yahoo!, Windows Live and Ask.com to provide users with the most relevantand useful information. As consumer demand for online video content continues togrow, the partnership allows InfoSpace to offer users the same breadth andrelevancy of video search results as it does with text-based Web search results. "Video search has become increasingly popular among today's Web searchers andthis addition allows us to offer Dogpile users a more visual and interactivesearch experience," said Brian McManus, executive vice president of the onlinebusiness unit at InfoSpace. "blinkx is a leader in the video search space and wechose them to power our offering because of their extensive video contentlibrary and advanced video search technology. blinkx also provides results froma variety of video aggregators such as Brightcove, which makes this partnershipa great fit for Dogpile, as the leading metasearch site in the U.S." In addition to this newly added video search capability, InfoSpace recentlyunveiled a revamped Dogpile.com site with a refreshed look and feel, enhancedusability and an improved metasearch algorithm. Based on the principle that nosingle search engine can deliver the most relevant results 100% of the time,Dogpile.com combines results from multiple engines to bring together the highestranked results in one place. As a testament to the quality of the site, in 2006,Dogpile.com received the prestigious J.D. Power and Associates award, ranking it'Highest in Customer Satisfaction Among Internet Users with Primary SearchEngines/Functions' in the U.S.A.i "InfoSpace has a well-established and trusted family of metasearch products, andwe're delighted to provide video search capabilities to their millions of usersworldwide," said Suranga Chandratillake, founder and CEO, blinkx. "Thispartnership continues to build upon the momentum for our patented conceptualsearch technology and further demonstrates our leadership in the online videoarena." As a pioneer in video search technology, blinkx has built a reputation as themost intuitive way to search new forms of online content such as video. Withmore than 100 partners and twelve million hours of indexed video and audiocontent, including favorite TV moments, news clips, short documentaries, musicvideos, video blogs and more, blinkx uses advanced speech recognition technologyto deliver results that are more accurate and reliable than standardmetadata-based keyword searches. In addition to Dogpile.com, video content fromblinkx is now available on InfoSpace's WebFetch, WebFetchPro, and WebCrawlersites. About Dogpile(R) Web metasearch engine Dogpile (www.dogpile.com), ranked highest in customersatisfaction by J.D. Power and Associates, makes it easy for users to searchmore of the Web by drawing together the top results from the most popular searchengines. Dogpile.com is part of the InfoSpace family of Web search and onlinedirectory properties. About InfoSpace(R) InfoSpace, Inc. is a leading developer of tools and technologies to help peoplediscover and enjoy content and information -- whether on a mobile phone or onthe PC. InfoSpace uses its proprietary metasearch technology to power aportfolio of branded Web sites, including Dogpile (www.dogpile.com) and Zoo(www.zoo.com), a kid-friendly search engine, and provide private-label searchand online directory services to consumers on a global basis. The company'smobile platform and applications, such as InfoSpace Find It!(www.infospacefindit.com), create revenue opportunities for carriers, whilesatisfying consumer demand for a highly relevant mobile user experience. Moreinformation can be found at www.infospaceinc.com. About blinkx blinkx (London AIM: BLNX) is the world's most comprehensive video search engine.Today, blinkx has indexed more than 12 million 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. Go towww.blinkx.com for more information. Contact:Melissa LitonWeber Shandwick Worldwide for InfoSpace425-452-5403mliton@webershandwick.com Tim TurpinOutCast Communications415-392-8282tim@outcastpr.com Edward Bridges / Haya ChelhotFinancial Dynamics+44 20 7831 3113blinkx@fd.com i Footnote: *Dogpile received the highest numerical score for primary searchengines in the proprietary J.D. Power and Associates 2006 Residential OnlineService Customer Satisfaction StudySM based on responses from 10,787 residentialcustomers of internet service providers, measuring 7 search engines/functions.Proprietary study results are based on experiences and perceptions of consumerssurveyed June - July 2006. Your experiences may vary. Visit www.jdpower.com formore information. This release contains forward-looking statements regarding InfoSpace's onlinebusiness and its agreement with blinkx. These forward-looking statements aresubject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results todiffer materially from those projected. These statements are not guarantees offuture performance and are subject to certain risks, uncertainties andassumptions that are difficult to predict. Factors that could affect InfoSpace'sactual results include the performance under the agreement with blinkx, theprogress and costs of the development of our products and services and thetiming of market acceptance of those products and services including the extentof user adoption and usage of InfoSpace's metasearch offerings. A more detaileddescription of certain factors that could affect actual results include, but arenot limited to, those discussed in InfoSpace's most recent Quarterly Report onForm 10-Q, in the section entitled "Risk Factors." Readers are cautioned not toplace undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as ofthe date of this release. InfoSpace undertakes no obligation to update publiclyany forward-looking statements to reflect new information, events orcircumstances after the date of this release or to reflect the occurrence ofunanticipated events. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange