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26 Nov 2007 17:05

Blinkx Plc26 November 2007 Hitwise reports that www.blinkx.com recently surpassed Google Video in the UK with weekly market share of visits blinkx tops 4.5 Million Daily Searches, record growth Reported by comScore Media Metrix, Hitwise, Quantcast and Compete.com SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. - November 26, 2007 - blinkx, the largest video searchengine on the Web, today announced new metrics from third party reportingagencies, comScore, Hitwise and Quantcast, which confirm explosive growth insearch traffic across the blinkx network in the second half of 2007. comScore is reporting a record 52.5 million unique visitors and 535 million pageviews through the blinkx network during October 2007. According to Internetmeasurement service Hitwise, blinkx increased its market share of visits withinthe Entertainment-Multimedia category by 541% between January and October 2007,outperforming the growth of the industry. In addition, Hitwise is reportingthat www.blinkx.com recently surpassed Google Video in the UK with weekly marketshare of visits. Compete.com also recognized blinkx as September 2007's fastestgrowing video spot on the Web, with an increase of 188% in number of visitors. Since its IPO in May 2007, strong demand for blinkx's unique, patented searchfunctionality has established blinkx as the gold standard in video search,powering many of the most popular sites and portals on the Internet.High-profile new syndication customers included Ask.com, RealNetworks andInfoSpace. "The meteoric rise of online video, of both user-generated content and alsohigh-value programming from established media companies, has resulted infragmentation of video content across the Web, and therefore driven demand foran advanced multimedia search function," said Suranga Chandratillake, founderand CEO of blinkx. "Navigation is a vital service, and blinkx's tremendousgrowth is testament to the excellence of our technology and the results wedeliver." Regarding demographics, Internet ratings service, Quantcast reports thatwww.blinkx.com "caters to a more youthful, very slightly male biased, moreeducated following." As the pioneer in video search technology, blinkx has built a reputation as thesmartest way to search new forms of online content such as video. With more than220 partners and 18 million hours of indexed video and audio content, includingfavorite TV moments, news clips, short documentaries, music videos, video blogsand more, blinkx uses advanced speech recognition technology to deliver resultsthat are more accurate and reliable than standard metadata-based keywordsearches. 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: Clare Gayner Bite PR +44 (0)20 8834 3454 Clare.Gayner@bitepr.com Haya Chelhot Financial Dynamics +44 (0) 20 7269 7274 Haya.Chelhot@fd.com This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange