Blinkx Adds Partner

SAN FRANCISCO -- blinkx, the world's largest video search engine, today announced a partnership with vpod.tv, an innovative Website offering Video Publishing On Demand services, which enables consumers and corporations to create their own private Internet and mobile TV channels. blinkx will index thousand hours of vpod.tv's user-generated content and make it fully searchable at http://www.blinkx.com/ ."We're thrilled to be partnering with blinkx to enable more accurate searches across our library of content," said Rodrigo Sepulveda Schulz, co-founder & CEO, vpod.tv. "vpod.tv offers the best experience for uploading, editing and publishing video online, and we want to provide users with the most effective search experience as well. blinkx's video search capabilities are unrivaled in the industry." "User-generated content is among the most popular video on the Web -- from karaoke to skateboarding dogs -- and vpod.tv is now giving consumers a chance to monetize their contributions," said Suranga Chandratillake, founder and CTO, blinkx. "We're pleased to be partnering with this innovative company to make their rich media fully searchable and more accessible."As the pioneer in video search technology, blinkx has built a reputation as the smartest way to search new forms of online content such as video. With more than 100 partners and seven 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 to deliver results that are more accurate and reliable than standard metadata-based keyword searches. blinkx is advancing the way in which users can benefit from online video by giving them more control and more visual functionality, creating a more TV-like experience.

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