blinkx Partners With EuroNews to Make Europe's Leading International News

Channel Fully Searchable at www.blinkx.tv

    SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- blinkx, the smartest thing the Web,
 today announced a partnership deal with EuroNews, the most watched
 international news channel in Europe.  EuroNews is the latest site to be added
 to blinkx's news and information line-up, which already features Reuters,
 Business Week and the New York Times.  Under the terms of the agreement, users
 in Europe and around the world will be able to search over 4,000 thousand
 international TV news segments, including in-depth coverage of the day's tops
 stories, sports, business, science and culture.
     Today, many consumers use the Internet as their primary source for news
 and current events.  www.blinkx.tv simplifies the experience by aggregating
 video content from a wide variety of leading news outlets, such as EuroNews,
 and making it fully searchable at a single destination.  blinkx is also the
 only search engine that is optimized for searching rich media content --
 creating a transcript of all footage, before indexing it, so users get more
 accurate search results.  For example, a search on European reaction to the
 avian flu epidemic at www.blinkx.tv will bring users directly to the most
 relevant moment in a given news segment, without overwhelming them with
 extraneous results on the disease in regions outside of Europe.
     "blinkx has unique technology that helps our global audience find the
 breaking news they want quickly and effectively," said Philippe Cayla,
 Chairman and CEO, EuroNews.  "As one of the world's largest global news
 networks, we're delighted to extend the reach of our content to audiences at
 www.blinkx.tv."
     "blinkx prides itself on the wide variety of content sources it offers
 users," said Federico Grosso, VP business development for Europe, blinkx.
 "EuroNews gives viewers a wider perspective on the world. The channel has an
 unrivalled supply of news footage from around the world through the Eurovision
 Exchange, and its public service broadcaster shareholders, as well as from the
 major news agencies."
 
     About blinkx
     blinkx, the smartest thing on your computer and on the Web, is changing
 the way that people think about search. Only blinkx can harness the desktop,
 Web and TV -- unifying content with a one stop search tool. Available to users
 on the Web at www.blinkx.com and www.blinkx.tv, as well as free to download,
 blinkx automatically and intelligently links to content anywhere and in any
 format, on the Web, on the desktop and even on TV. blinkx's conceptual toolbar
 means users are no longer limited to keyword search; instead, blinkx assesses
 all the information that the user is actively viewing, and automatically
 recommends and retrieves relevant content, from local, Web and TV searches,
 based on context. In addition, www.blinkx.tv makes thousands of hours of TV
 content fully searchable and available on demand for the first time. blinkx is
 a privately-held company based in San Francisco and London. More information
 is available at www.blinkx.com.
 
 

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