Microsoft Licenses Blinkx Technology
October 10th, 2006
Video search engine Blinkx is to license its technology to Microsoft.
The agreement allows Microsoft’s multimedia and online products to “have the option to integrate Blinkx services if their customers request such a service”.
Financial details were not disclosed.
San Francisco based Blinkx uses its proprietry voice recognition software to analyse and index video content from around the web. This differentiates it from services such as YouTube which actually host video content themselves. Blinkx already powers video search on sites ranging from AOL to ITN, Lycos and Times Online.
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