How to Find and Catalogue Video on the Web
By Lorraine Grula, Internet Video Gal

With the marvelous world of Internet video, video lovers everywhere can share their dreams and visions… no matter the distance between them. Video on the Internet is a communication tool unparalleled in human history.

Only problem is, how to keep track of everything there is to watch?

If you want to find any video on the web, you need to check out http://www.blinkx.com/

Blinkx is the world’s largest and most advanced video search engine. It helps make the job of finding that perfect video easier.

Already the web holds about 18 million hours worth of video…talk about easy to get lost in the shuffle! Blinkx.com is here to help keep the colossal amount of web video from looking like a teenager’s closet.

Think of blinkx as the great organizer and remote control device for video on the web. They have all 18 million hours stacked and sorted, nice and neat…no need to dust!

Everybody who is anybody has partnered with Blinkx, which is one way they’ve been able to amass their huge, free access library. Blinkx reports around two-hundred media partnerships, including national broadcasters, commercial media giants, and private video libraries. In the lickity-split world on online broadcasting, Blinkx has been a web video pioneer. Some very smart people (Cambridge University) poured lots of money into it ($150M in R&D over 12 years) to develop a system to dominate web video search. The investment paid off. Now, their huge network guarantees Blinkx a position as one of the premier destination in online TV distribution for years to come.

Cambridge developers at Blinkx constructed an engine-based video recognition technology that is now protected by an impressive one-hundred and eleven International and US patents.

One reason Blinkx works so well is the fact that they developed their system specifically for video. Other multimedia search engines merely re-purposed technology built for the text web, readjusting a text-based system to handle video. Blinkx started with the premise of cataloguing video, so no wonder they now have a system that works beautifully.

Reading a video file is a huge leap over reading a text file. Think about it, text is plain and simple. (A q-is-a-q-is-a-q.) To analyze video, a computer has to be able to recognize variable speech patterns and decipher complex digital video signals in multiple file formats.

Today, Blinkx claims to be the world’s largest single index of rich media content on the Web, delivering more content from a broader range of sources than Google.

All of this video content is available to anyone in the world with a decent internet connection. Think about it folks, that’s a potential six billion viewers for your video!

This is the future…viewers get to pick and choose their content with an unprecedented degree of flexibility and personalization. At www.blinkx.com, users can not only search for video, it’s easy to create personal video play lists, and build a customized Video Wall for your own blog or MySpace page using blinkx incredible database.

Mindful of obvious parental concerns over children’s ability to reach into a toy box stuffed full of Internet video, blinkx patented Safe Search, an adult content filter. Safe Search is an optional feature. When Safe Search is turned on, all adult material is filtered out of the results, rendering the search family friendly. Safe Search works using computer cookies, which will all know to be inferior to good-old-fashion chocolate chip.

As Internet video technology grows, www.Blinkx.com will help guide the way, providing a superior video search experience.