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San Francisco, California - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - October 26, 2007 - Video search engine, blinkx, has been selected by Goal.com, to power its video search application, for international soccer news. Goal.com represents the largest football community in the world, with 16 language versions, covering 210 countries.

Goal.com provides users with the breaking news, live scores, match previews and latest club news through its interactive web site and community forums. Under the terms of the agreement, blinkx will enable Goal.com to access blinkx’s index of over 14 million hours of audio and video content. blinkx will bring video search and its popular video wall feature to the Goal.com website, in addition to automatically delivering relevant videos to accompany the thousands of text articles available to users at Goal.com.

Suranga Chandratillake, Founder and CEO of blinkx noted, ”We’re delighted to be powering video for Goal.com. Now soccer fans will be able to watch their favorite players, matches, or moments, while catching up on the latest football news or participating in community forums.”

Chicco Merighi, President of Goal.com added, ”Through our partnership with blinkx we’re bringing our users the best rich media experience on the web. blinkx’s extensive index of soccer video enables us to deliver exciting, relevant footage alongside our news and community features.”

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 100 partners and 14 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.

Recenly, the search engine partnered with ad network Utarget, to place video advertising around its video content for UK audiences. Utarget will focus on monetising blinkx’s video inventory including ITN News and ITN Celebrity. There is tremendous excitement and potential in online video advertising - eMarketer projects the US online video advertising market will grow from US$775 million this year to US$4.3 billion by 2011. Utarget launched the UK’s first video advertising network, UtargetTV, in June 2006. It has grown the network to more than 125 sites and delivered 9.6 million video ads in August 2007 including major TV-advertiser brands such as Coke, Halifax, Shell and Smirnoff. blinkx, named this year as one of Time magazine’s Best of the Web and a Business 2.0 Disruptor, is the world’s largest video search engine with more than 14 million hours of searchable audio-visual content and has over 200 media partnerships in place.

blinkx was also named a finalist in the ”Webware 100” Awards by CNET Webware Editors and the Web 2.0 User Community. With more than 200 partners and fourteen 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.

blinkx (London AIM: BLNX) is a comprehensive video search engine, having 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, please visit: www.blinkx.com

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