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Blinkx and you won’t miss it

Posted by Jane Berliss-Vincent 25 February 2007

The Blinkx search engine does for videos what Podzinger does for podcasts: provide search options based on the auditory content within a video. As the cited example points out, this may reduce cognitive load–individuals can search on any phrase they remember from the video, rather than being forced to remember the video’s specific name. It would be great if someday it could also search captions, at least for the microscopic percentage of videos that have ‘em.

Millions of Videos, and Now a Way to Search Inside Them

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