Agreement Makes Popular Shows and Top Video Content Fully Searchable Online
SAN FRANCISCO, June 5 /PRNewswire/ -- blinkx, the smartest thing on
your computer and the Web, today announced an agreement with Playboy.com, a
leading men's lifestyle and entertainment website. The agreement will make
free premium online content from the Playboy TV Jukebox, an online
collection of popular Playboy TV shows, fully searchable via the blinkx.tv
video search service.
blinkx users will be able to find clips from the most popular Playboy
TV shows on blinkx.tv from funny hidden camera videos to sexy reality TV,
including shows like "Naughty Amateur Home Videos," "Totally Busted," "7
Lives Xposed," "Adult Stars Close Up," "Sexy Girls Next Door," "Sexcetera,"
and others.
"We're excited to partner with blinkx because they offer a great video
search service that will help our audience more easily find their favorite
shows online," said Michael Sprouse, SVP of marketing for the Playboy
Entertainment Group. "We also look forward to introducing more content down
the road to new viewers through http://www.blinkx.tv."
blinkx is the only search technology optimized for rich media that has
the ability to index and understand any type of rich media content on the
web. The blinkx video search engine uses advanced voice recognition and
speech-to-text technology to automatically index and transcribe video and
audio on the Web, making it searchable right down to the individual spoken
words.
"blinkx is happy to be partnering with Playboy.com because our users
will be able to find an even wider range of content from news to sports to
adult entertainment," said Suranga Chandratillake, founder and CTO of
blinkx.
blinkx.tv offers users a safe button below the search box that can be
easily turned on and off with the click of a mouse to include or restrain
adult entertainment content from appearing within search results.
About blinkx
blinkx, the smartest thing on your computer and on the Web, is changing
the way that people think about search. Only blinkx can harness the
desktop, Web and TV -- unifying content with a one stop search tool.
Available to users on the Web at http://www.blinkx.com and
http://www.blinkx.tv/, as well as free to download, blinkx automatically
and intelligently links to content anywhere and in any format, on the Web,
on the desktop and even on TV. blinkx's conceptual toolbar means users are
no longer limited to keyword search; instead, blinkx assesses all the
information that the user is actively viewing, and automatically recommends
and retrieves relevant content, from local, Web and TV searches, based on
context. In addition, http://www.blinkx.tv http://www.blinkx.tv/ makes thousands
of hours of TV content fully searchable and available on demand for the
first time. blinkx is a privately-held company based in San Francisco and
London. More information is available at http://www.blinkx.com/.
Press Contact:
Julia Blystone
415-392-8282
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