Blinkx Releases Search Engine for TV
December 23, 2004
San Francisco, CA - blinkx TV is now available, a search engine that for TV content across news, sports and entertainment programming categories, making such TV programs fully searchable on demand. Because blinkx captures and indexes the entire video stream directly from the television, consumers can get straight to the exact clip they want, the companay reports.
With the launch of blinkx TV, blinkx brings its search capabilities to some of the most watched news and entertainment channels. Consumers can now search and access news, movie trailers, popular multimedia segments and other video formats on demand. By entering a few words into the query box, consumers are automatically linked to the exact clip they're looking for - for example, entering "Ocean's Twelve" into the search box would take users to Julia Robert multimedia files even if the specific search term wasn't mentioned in the bulletin title.
Video Smart Folders (available online) allow users to create intelligent folders that automatically update multimedia content as new footage becomes available, downloading high quality video in the background, based on the ideas contained within the content of those videos. The result is that users have on demand access to relevant content.
Each Video Smart Folder contains content from multiple sources that is specifically relevant to each individual, and acts as a persistent query. If you want to be notified when a news flash on the latest developments regarding the Indiana Pacers and their suspended players in the wake of their brawl with Detroit Pistons fans becomes available, you can customize a search that will automatically download high quality video to your computer.
How blinkx Works
Because blinkx is not constrained by the limits of keyword-based technologies, it is able to extract the main ideas contained within any document and thus derive its meaning.
blinkx uses patented Context Clustering Technology (CCT) technology to overcome the shortcomings of keyword technologies and to truly understand the ideas and context behind the words. blinkx applies its unique CCT ability to make the search experience faster, more accurate and more relevant. Approaches to searching through information using simple keyword query mechanisms fail because they do not provide enough context.
In such cases users are overwhelmed by hundreds or thousands results, all of which match the query, but many that represent the different contexts within which the query term or terms can appear in. blinkx CCT is unique because it helps a user provide the context that is crucial to making keyword searching or organization - it does not second-guess a user's needs, but seamlessly provides the automated guidance required to enrich the overall experience.
For more information, visit
www.blinkx.com
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