blinkx AdHoc Named Best Search Engine Ad Platform Finalist for 2009 Search Engine Watch Awards

September 21st, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO - - Get your Northern exposure at www.blinkx.com blinkx, the world's largest video search engine, today announced a new partnership with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), Canada's national public radio and television broadcast network. Clips from the station's online video library are now easily available at www.blinkx.com.

August 31st, 2009 AMSTERDAM - As of today, Muslims from all over the world can search the World Wide Web safely without coming across content that might be considered "Haram" according to the Islamic Law. The search engine, ImHalal.com (www.imhalal.com/ ), only fetches results that are flagged as to be "Halal".

August 16th, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO - - Traffic to blinkx.com continues to soar as more users turn to search blinkx, the world's largest and most advanced video search engine, today announced that it has broken into the top 10 most popular video sites, according to a recent Nielsen VideoCensus report of video usage in the U.S. Ranked by video streams for July 2009, the short list also includes top industry brands YouTube, Yahoo!, MSN, MTV, and CNN.

June 1st, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO - Do it yourself at www.blinkx.com blinkx, the world's largest video search engine, today announced a new partnership with BobVila.com. Clips from home improvement television host Bob Vila's Web site are now easily available at www.blinkx.com.

May 26th, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO - www.blinkx.com takes you out to the ballgame blinkx, the world's largest video search engine, today announced a partnership with FOXSports.com on MSN, one of the Web's leading sports sites. More sports news and clips than ever before are now available on www.blinkx.com.

May 19th, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO - 7th annual Stevie(R) Awards will be presented on June 22 in New York City blinkx, the world's largest and most advanced video search engine, today announced that Founder and CEO Suranga Chandratillake has been selected as a finalist for the 2009 American Business Awards in the Executive of the Year category for Media & Entertainment. "It's a great honor to be nominated by The American Business Awards' Board of Distinguished Judges and Advisors as an Executive of the Year," said Suranga Chandratillake, founder and CEO, blinkx.

May 5th, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO - Get your motor running at www.blinkx.com blinkx, the world's largest video search engine, today announced a new partnership with Gumball 3000. Dozens of clips from the lifestyle brand's annual Gumball 3000 Rally are being made accessible at www.blinkx.com as they become available.

April 21st, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO - It's easy being green at www.blinkx.com blinkx, the world's largest and most advanced video search engine, today announced new partnerships with Gaiam, The Green Girls, and GardenGirlTV. More green and environmental video is available than ever before at www.blinkx.com.

March 30th, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO - Online Voting is Now Open to the Public at Webware.com blinkx, the world's largest and most advanced video search engine, today announced that it has been selected by editors at CNET Webware as a finalist for the 2009 Webware 100 Awards in the Photo & Video category. From more than 5,000 user-submitted nominations, blinkx was chosen as one of 300 finalists.

March 16th, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO - blinkx, the world's largest and most advanced video search engine, today announced that its senior vice president of Business Development, Federico Grosso, will be speaking at the 2009 Media Summit Conference at the McGraw-Hill Building in New York City at 2:15 p.m. E.T. on March 18th.

September 6th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The USGS (US Geological Survey) National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) has developed a new search engine that helps users hunt through massive amounts of online information about plants and animals. NBII's revamped search engine offers a variety of new features, including the ability to search multiple databases at the same time and the ability to return results that arrive in "clusters," or automatically generated categories associated with the search topic.

May 14th, 2009 Google glitch disrupts search engine, e-mailMOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google says it has fixed the technical problems that have prevented an unknown number of people from using its Internet search engine, e-mail and other services.

September 2nd, 2009 LONDON - A halal search-engine has been launched for Muslims to know which Internet sites should be avoided because of their forbidden, or "haram" content as per Islamic law. The search engine, ImHalal.com, only fetches results that are flagged as "Halal" and safe for Muslim users, reports The Telegraph.

June 8th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Indian netizens will not find any explicit images and videos on Microsoft's new search engine Bing because the company has blocked them for Internet users in countries where pornography is banned. This feature now works only when a user says that he/she is an English-speaking American, Canadian or Australian.

August 11th, 2009 LONDON - Google Inc. is working on a new test version of its search engine, which the company claims will be faster and more relevant than ever before.

May 8th, 2009 MUMBAI - The Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO), www.sempo.org, announced that, as part of its Asia tour, it will visit Mumbai on June 15. Mumbai is one stop in a three-city Asian tour that SEMPO is undertaking to foster the awareness of search engine marketing and connect professionals in the region with Western markets.

June 6th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Having problems with a search engine, then change the search terms to get the information you need. But what if the search engine did it for you? A Penn State researcher analysed nearly one million web searches to detect patterns of query reformulation and create models to predict them -- models that may help create more advanced search engines.

June 2nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - Microsoft's new search engine 'Bing' may be as good as Google, but Internet safety experts have warned that there is a glitch in the engine that gives users easy access to pornographic material. Bing went live in the U.S.

April 14th, 2009 GURGAON - Maruti-Suzuki Tuesday opened its new engine manufacturing facility in Gurgaon, where it will produce energy efficient 1,197cc K12M petrol engines. The four-cylinder engine, designed to deliver 85 ps of power, is the second aluminium engine being manufactured by Maruti in the country after the K10B, which is being used in the recently launched A-star.

March 29th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The day is not far when an online search engine would be giving netizens direct answers to their queries rather than web pages containing them, if researchers are to be believed. Weiyi Meng, a professor of computer science at State University of New York at Binghamton (SUNY Binghamton), reckons that such a search engine would even be able to answer nuanced questions like "What do Americans think of universal health care?" He says that the search engine would create a report indicating trends in opinion based on what has been posted to the web.