SeoPapers - article Ask.com Selects blinkx, to Power Video Search

San Francisco, California - (Website Hosting Directory) - October 2, 2007 - Ask.com, the wholly-owned business of IAC, has chosen blinkx to power its video search solution, in addition to providing the video search capabilities for Ask.com's Smart Answers.

Ask.com users are hoped to benefit from blinkx's index of over 12 million hours of audio and video content. blinkx will generate revenue from this relationship through video searches undertaken by Ask.com users.

Suranga Chandratillake, Founder and CEO of blinkx offered, ''Ask.com's momentum is impressive and we're very proud to be powering their new video search offering. This relationship further demonstrates our technology leadership in the video search space and is an exciting development for our 130 or so media partners whose content can now be accessed through Ask.com.''

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 130 media 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.

In August, Ask reached a milestone with the American Customer Satisfaction Index, having achieved the largest increase in the e-business category. While the market share leader and search category as a whole declined this year, Ask.com's level of satisfaction grew from a rating of 71 in 2006 to 75 in 2007. This represents the highest increase year over year among all portals, search engines, and news and information sites measured by ACSI.

In addition to the highest increase year over year, Ask.com's new score also represents a 21% increase in customer satisfaction since the company was first tested as AskJeeves with a score of 62 in 2002 -- the largest increase of any online company in the history of the ACSI.

Search engine Ask.com, utilizes search technology with unique search tools to facilitate the search process. Ask.com sites include Ask.com US, Ask.com Deutschland, Ask.com Espana, Ask.com France, Ask.com Italia, Ask.com Japan, Ask.com Nederlands and Ask.com UK. Additionally, Ask.com syndicates its search technology and advertising units to a network of affiliate partners. Ask.com is a division of IAC Search and Media, a wholly-owned business of IAC.

blinkx (London AIM: BLNX) is the world's most comprehensive video search engine. blinkx has indexed more than 14,000,000 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.

To learn more about blinkx, please visit: www.blinkx.com

For more information about Ask.com, please visit: www.ask.com.

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