blinkx Enters Global Partnership With RealNetworks

blinkx Enters Global Partnership With RealNetworks

blinkx Video Search Embedded in the New RealPlayer Giving Users Access to Over 12 Million Hours of Video Content and the Most Powerful Video Search Experience on the Web

SAN FRANCISCO, California, June 25/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- blinkx, the largest video search engine on the Web, today announced a
global partnership with digital entertainment services company
RealNetworks(R) in which blinkx will power video search for the new
RealPlayer.

A video search box powered by blinkx will be embedded in the RealPlayer
window, so that its millions of users will now have direct access from within
the Player to a fully-searchable index of over 12 million hours of online
video, including favorite TV moments, news clips, short documentaries, music
videos, video blogs and more.

"The new RealPlayer will give people the ability to easily download
non-DRM protected videos from thousands of sites, so giving our users access
to a best-in-class video search experience is critical," said Jeff Chasen,
vice president of RealPlayer for RealNetworks, Inc. "By teaming up with
blinkx, we now deliver their powerful video search engine directly to our
users."

"We are very excited to be powering video search for RealNetworks, a
global leader in digital media and entertainment," said Suranga
Chandratillake, founder and CEO, blinkx. "Through blinkx's patented speech
and pattern recognition technologies, we will be offering their millions of
users the most advanced tool for finding videos online."

As the pioneer in video search technology, blinkx has built a reputation
as the smartest way to search new forms of online content such as video. With
more than 150 partners and 12 million hours of indexed video and audio
content, including favorite TV moments, news clips, short documentaries,
music videos, video blogs and more, blinkx uses advanced speech recognition
technology to deliver results that are more accurate and reliable than
standard metadata-based keyword searches.

About blinkx:

blinkx (London AIM: BLNX) is the world's most comprehensive video search
engine. Today, blinkx has indexed more than 12,000,000 hours of audio, video,
viral and TV content, and made it fully searchable and available on demand.
blinkx's founders set out to solve a significant challenge - as TV and
user-generated content on the Web explode, keyword-based search technologies
only scratch the surface. blinkx's patented search technologies listen to -
and even see - the Web, helping users enjoy a breadth and accuracy of search
results not available elsewhere. In addition, blinkx powers the video search
for many of the world's most frequented sites. blinkx is based in San
Francisco and London. More information is available at www.blinkx.com

Media Contact:

Tim Turpin
OutCast Communications
Tim@outcastpr.com
+1-415-392-8282

Edward Bridges / Haya Chelhot
Financial Dynamics
blinkx@fd.com
+44-20-7831-3113

Source: blinkx

Media Contact: Tim Turpin, OutCast Communications, Tim@outcastpr.com, +1-415-392-8282; Edward Bridges / Haya Chelhot, Financial Dynamics, blinkx@fd.com, +44-20-7831-3113

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