Microsoft announces partnership deal with Blinkx to power searches via MSN video, throwing their hat in the ring with others making splashes in online video news on Monday.
Lycos Blinkx Back Into Existence
Blinkx founder Suranga Chandratillake admits that Lycos has been “out of the glare” for quite some time, largely due to foreign ownership. But Lycos reminds the industry the portal still has 25 million daily visitors, and plans to increase those numbers through a partnership with blinkx to launch “the new Lycos broadband search experience.”
Blinkx.tv Makes ‘Historical’ Deal
Have you ever wanted to hear first hand the venerated Albert Einstein disclaim his own mathematics by saying “God does not play dice with the universe”? Video and audio search engine blinkx announced today an agreement with the UK-arm of cable’s The History Channel that may let you do just that.
CBS Content Playing On Blinkx
Don’t call the lawyers, though; CBS has approved this deal with Blinkx.tv, which makes localized content like news, weather, and entertainment available from CBS TV websites to the Blinkx search engine.
Blinkx Attracts AtomFilms
Video search engine blinxk and online film company AtomFilms spliced together an agreement putting over 1000 AtomFilms short film and animation titles into blinkx search. This will much to blinkx, including some of AtomFilm’s award winning fare.
blinkx Bubbles Over, Doubles Partner List
The boys and girls and blinkx said they’ve added a few new friends to their list, doubling the number of content partners and in the process, adding quite a bit of video content to their already large database.
Rupert Murdoch Eyes Blinkx
Last week the big news was that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp was in talks to acquire an established but unnamed entity.
Blinkx Launches RSS Feeds For Search Queries
Today, Blinkx debuted SmartFeed, the newest feature to their search service, which focuses more and more on the rich media aspect of search. Initially, blinkx launched with the intention of developing a strong presence in the desktop search field, which has since become watered down.
Blinkx Now Searches Podcasts, Video Blogs
According to blinkx founder Suranga Chandratillake, podcasting is one of the fastest growing mediums ever, with large amounts of new content coming out daily. Insight into Suranga’s mindset sheds light on the reasoning behind the newest feature to be integrated into the blinkx search engine: the ability to search podcasts.
blinkx Partners With IFilm
Because a successful video search presence places most, if not all, of its hopes on a comprehensive search index, partnerships and agreements that can increase searchable content are vitally important.