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Blinkx, Joost Develop Deal With Cycling.tv

For you Tour de France fans - you fans whose favorite cyclists haven’t been booted for lying or doping, that is - there’s good news: Cycling.tv just made distribution deals with Blinkx and Joost.  But the arrangement is really intended to draw in those of you who aren’t fans.

Blinkx Makes It To 14 Million Hours

We last wrote about Blinkx seven days ago, and at that time, the company claimed its index contained a whopping 12 million hours’ worth of content.  Blinkx has now issued a release announcing its arrival at the 14 million-hour mark.

Blinkx Makes Friends With Vibe Solutions Group

Blinkx keeps getting bigger, and the video search engine has just won a new partner - Vibe Solutions Group - that continues the trend.  Vibe will add Pyro.TV to Blinkx’s searchable index.

Sesam.se Seals Deal With Blinkx

Sesam.se launched in November of 2006, and “is now Sweden’s leading search engine.”  That’s pretty impressive, and thanks to a partnership with Blinkx, Sesam.se is set to take another leap: it will gain access to 12 million hours of video.

Autonomy Acquires Zantaz

$375 million will buy a lot of things, and one of them appears to be Zantaz, “a global leader in content archiving, electronic discovery solutions and software as a service.”  Autonomy, “a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise,” is behind the purchase.

blinkx Launches Contextual Video Ads

It was only a matter of time, because it’s seemed obvious to many that a good video advertising solution would be for an automated system to match video content to commercial style video ads. blinkx has announced their solution called AdHoc (honestly, must every advertising solution be “Ad-something”?) that does this.

Blinkx Launches AdHoc Platform

Video search engine blinkx officially launched its AdHoc contextual video advertising platform this week, a platform the company claims will do for video advertising what AdSense did for text ads.

Blinkx, InfoSpace Partner

Video search engine blinkx has partnered with InfoSpace to provide video search for InfoSpace's metasearch brands including Dogpile.com.

Blinkx To Power RealPlayer's Search

RealPlayer was resurrected last month, and in the process, the media player’s parent company rubbed elbows with Google.  Now word has come that Real also worked something out with Blinkx, and in what the two corporations have termed a “global partnership,” Blinkx “will power video search for the new RealPlayer.”

Killer Video Search Engine (ClipBlast)

I’ve been looking for a great video search engine that includes all the videos that I’ve done. I’ve been to Dabble, Blinkx, YouTube, MeeVee, Truveo, and others. None have all my videos with the latest videos represented.