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blinkx launches TV and radio search engine
(December 15 2004) This is a little bit different concept than the Yahoo! video search engine Pandia described earlier today. blinkx.tv captures and indexes video streams published by TV and radio company web sites, letting you search for news, movie trailers, popular multimedia spots etc. Moreover, it actually makes an analysis of the audio track of any transmission in order to understand the words spoken. This information is added to the database. In blinkx' words: "The system technology is based around decomposing digitized speech into its phonetic constructs. The phonetic sequence is then analyzed in conjunction with acoustic model and statistical improbabilities to calculate which is the most probable sequence of hence words and utterances." Moreover, blinkx makes copies of the video streams and coverts them into formats that are easily accessed by web browsers (Real and Windows Media). Hence the video stream you are watching at blinkx is fetched from the blinkx servers, not from the original site. Among the sources covered are BBC, CNN, ITN, C-SPAN, CBS, HBO, ESPN, Bloomberg, Fox News and US National Public Radio. blinkx supports advanced Boolean search, and lets you sort by relevance or date. The blinkx.tv site also lets searchers program so called "Smart Folders" that is automatically filled with relevant multimedia content, based on definitions given by the searcher. These folders may even be programmed to automatically download content in the background. Does the blinkx.tv search engine actually work? Given that this is the first day, we will not judge it too harshly. blinkx.tv definitely requires a broadband connection, and they make no secret about it. We found that links to the NBC site loaded easily, but had some difficulty with BBC and NPR. It turned out that this was due to our lack of a recent Real player, and somehow the Internet Explorer failed to inform us about this. We tested it in Firefox, downloaded Real and hey, it worked perfectly in both browsers!
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blinkx has launched a new video and audio search engine called blinkx.tv.
