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I looked at Blinkx a few months ago, after NewTeeVee did a story on who had the most video clips. I searched on “advanced search” with nothing in the box, as the NewTeeVee people said to do, and got back 2.5 million clips.

Now if I do it, they seem to have altered “advanced search” so that nothing comes up when nothing is in the box. I searched on “a” and found that they have 11million plus clips.

Comparing apples to apples:

This is far less than either Truveo/Searchvideo.com which has 22 million clips or Dabble which has 15 million clips.

I think Blinkx is fantastic at hype, but no good at actual search, especially considering all their technology comes from Autonomy, which is enterprise search.

I think they are pulling the wool over your eyes.

Note also that they went out on the AIM penny stock market, with no revenue to speak of. That is the height of irresponsibility but considering they get all their search technology from Autonomy, and Autonomy owned 90% of them, in exchange for that, you can see why.