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ChaCha and blinkx Partner for New Video Search

May 15th, 2007

blinkx, the world’s largest video search engine, today announced a distribution agreement with ChaCha, the breakthrough search engine that uses human guides to enhance its search results. Under the terms of the agreement, ChaCha will provide its users with video search results from blinkx’s extensive index of the rich media Web. Results can either be culled instantly or by using the support of a human ChaCha “guide” who assists users in real-time at http://www.chacha.com.

ChaCha offers the next generation in search with its unique use of human intelligence. Using a single query box, users simply input their query, in any form, and results are instantly displayed. These results are the combination of the best search technology and “hand-picked” sites from the ChaCha community of 30,000 skilled search experts.

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 150 partners and 7,000,000 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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