Blinkx

Blinkx (London AIM:; stylized as blinkx; USA NASDAQ), is an Internet search engine for video and audio content, headquartered in San Francisco and Cambridge that allows searching and classification of audio files, video clips and streaming media such as Internet television and video on demand. blinkx’s video search engine is distinct from standard search engines as it uses speech recognition to listen to the audio component of video content, and then uses both the phonetic and text transcripts to match content with search queries. blinkx also indexes and searches podcasts and video blogs. It claims to be the largest deep indexed Video search engine with 35 million hours indexed (almost 4,000 years) and agreements with over 720 content companies.