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.
That’s quite impressive, implying a growth rate of 16.7 percent in that one week. A leap was also made in terms of corporate affiliations; Blinkx went from “more than 150 partners” to “more than 200 partnerships” in the same timespan. Granted, those descriptions overlap, but in the area of video content, it’s likely that Blinkx “fudged” its numbers a bit during that July 16 check-in.
I’m not going to fault the company for being modest, though - many corporations err in the other direction, and that’s much more annoying. Blinkx even remains unpretentious while reciting its latest accomplishments.
“Following a successful IPO on the London Stock Exchange (AiM) in May, blinkx announced a global partnership with digital entertainment services company RealNetworks, in which blinkx powers video search for the new RealPlayer 11,” a release states. “In recent months, the company also announced technology partnerships with search leader Ask.com and with Lycos MIX, a platform that lets users create video playlists.
“In addition, blinkx continues to be recognized for its technology and momentum. TIME.com selected blinkx.com as one of the 50 Best Websites for 2007 and Business XL Magazine recently named the company ‘Rising Star of the Year.’”
Just the facts - that’s what we like. And 14 million hours of content isn’t bad, either.
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blinkx is hype
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.
blinkx numbers
To clarify, blinkx takes in lots of news content, which scrolls off after 7-10 days, and that's why the 2.5 million number was more accurate in April. They were showing the actual number of clips available. The 11m number is, I think, padded with clips that you can't actually watch because they've gone away.
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