Ask.com selects blinkx

5 Jun 2007 07:01

Blinkx Plc05 June 2007 Ask.com Selects blinkx to Power Video Search Cambridge, England - June 5, 2007 - blinkx plc ("blinkx"), the world's largestvideo search engine, today announced that it will power video search at Ask.com,a leading search destination and wholly-owned business of IAC/InterActiveCorp(Nasdaq: IACI). In addition, blinkx will also provide the video searchcapabilities for Ask.com's Smart Answers. Ask.com users will benefit fromblinkx's index of over 12 million hours of audio and video content. blinkx will generate revenue from this relationship through video searchesundertaken by Ask.com users. "Ask.com's momentum is impressive and we're very proud to be powering their newvideo search offering," said Suranga Chandratillake, founder and CEO, blinkx. "This relationship further demonstrates our technology leadership in the videosearch space and is an exciting development for our 130 or so media partnerswhose content can now be accessed through Ask.com." 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 than130 media partners and 12 million hours of indexed video and audio content,including favorite TV moments, news clips, short documentaries, music videos,video blogs and more, blinkx uses advanced speech recognition technology todeliver results that are more accurate and reliable than standard metadata-basedkeyword searches. About blinkx blinkx plc (LSE AiM: BLNX) is the world's most comprehensive video searchengine. Today, blinkx has indexed more than 12 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 Contacts: Financial Dynamics +44 (0)20 7831 3113Edward Bridges/Haya Chelhot/Charles Palmer/Nicola Biles This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange