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Next week, Blinkx will introduce their acclaimed desktop search utility for the Macintosh environment.

The tool, which will be available for free, will bring the same Blinkx indexing technology that's currently accessible to PC users. Although, with the upcoming release of Apple's proprietary DTS Spotlight, acquiring Mac users may be rough going. But because of Blinkx's Smart Folder technology, there may yet be a market.

As reported by News.com:

The Apple update, says Blinkx co-founder and CTO Suranga Chandratillake, proves that search on the Mac is still a problem. Blinkx's free downloadable software can be a valuable answer for Mac users, Chandratillake said.

Blinkx's proposition is to give people a way to automatically organize folders of information without much work. Its technology, introduced last year, continually probes the PC and Web for files related to a designated topic or set keywords. Searchable files include e-mail, HTML, images, Office documents, and most recently, video clips.

Is there room enough for multiple Mac desktop search tools? Remember that Google has also indicated that their desktop search tool will possibly be available for Mac users as well.

Chris Richardson is a search engine writer and editor for WebProNews. Visit WebProNews for the latest search news.