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IXQUICK TEAMS WITH BLINKX TO OFFER NEW VIDEO SEARCH CAPABILITIES Partnership gives Ixquick users access to one of the most powerful video search experiences, with more than 14 million hours of video content SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. -- October 8, 2007 -- blinkx, the world's largest video search engine, today announced a distribution agreement with Ixquick, the world's most powerful metasearch engine. Under the terms of the agreement, a blinkx search box will appear on the Ixquick Web site, powering Ixquick's video search functionality and retrieving results from blinkx's index of videos on the Web. Unlike single search engines such as Google and Yahoo, Ixquick simultaneously searches multiple Internet databases, gathering and displaying comprehensive and accurate web results for Internet users. Ixquick offers its users privacy with its industry leading Privacy Policy. It is the first search engine to delete its user's personal data - the IP addresses and unique user ID cookies - within 48 hours. "We are pleased to be powering video search for Ixquick," said Suranga Chandratillake, founder and CEO, blinkx. "Through blinkx's patented speech and pattern recognition technologies, we provide Ixquick users with the best capabilities available to find, experience and share all forms of online video." "The Ixquick model is based on giving users the most comprehensive and relevant search results, in combination with our industry leading Privacy Policy" said Robert E.G. Beens, CEO of www.ixquick.com . By teaming up with blinkx, we can now offer our users the best video search capabilities available on the Web today, in full privacy." 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 200 partners and 14,000,000 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.
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