SAN FRANCISCO, October 8 /PRNewswire/ --

- Partnership gives Ixquick users access to one of the most powerful 
video search experiences, with more than 14 million hours of video content

blinkx, the world's largest video search engine, today announced a
distribution agreement with Ixquick, the world's most powerful meta-search
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 users' 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.

About blinkx

blinkx (London AIM: BLNX) is the world's most comprehensive video search
engine. Today, blinkx has 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 a privately-held company based in San Francisco and London. More
information is available at http://www.blinkx.com.

About Ixquick

Ixquick (http://www.ixquick.com) is an international award-winning meta
search engine, available in 17 languages. Unlike single search engines,
Ixquick simultaneously searches multiple Internet databases, gathering and
displaying comprehensive and accurate Web results to Internet users. Ixquick
offers its users privacy with its industry leading Privacy Policy. It is the
first search engine to delete its users' personal data -- the IP addresses
and unique user ID cookies -- within 48 hours. Founded in New York and
launched on the Web in 1998, Ixquick is owned by Surfboard Holding BV, a
Dutch company. Further information for the media can be found at
http://www.ixquick.com/press.

Web site: http://www.blinkx.com
              http://www.ixquick.com