Goal.com Selects blinkx to Power Video Search


SAN FRANCISCO, October 15 /PRNewswire/ --

blinkx, the world's largest video search engine, today announced that it
will power video search at Goal.com, the world's largest website for
international soccer news.

Goal.com represents the largest football community in the world, with 16
language versions, covering 210 countries. Goal.com provides users with the
breaking news, live scores, match previews and latest club news through its
interactive web site and community forums. Under the terms of the agreement,
blinkx will enable Goal.com to access blinkx's index of over 14 million hours
of audio and video content. blinkx will bring video search and its popular
video wall feature to the Goal.com website, in addition to automatically
delivering relevant videos to accompany the thousands of text articles
available to users at Goal.com.

"We're delighted to be powering video for Goal.com," said Suranga
Chandratillake, founder and CEO of blinkx. "Now soccer fans will be able to
watch their favorite players, matches, or moments, while catching up on the
latest football news or participating in community forums."

"Through our partnership with blinkx we're bringing our users the best
rich media experience on the Web," said Chicco Merighi, president of
Goal.com. "blinkx's extensive index of soccer video enables us to deliver
exciting, relevant footage alongside our news and community features."

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 100 partners and 14 million 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 plc (LSE AiM: BLNX) is the world's most comprehensive video search
engine. Today, blinkx has indexed more than 14 million 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 based in San Francisco and London. More information is available at 
http://www.blinkx.com.

About Goal.com

Launched in 2006, Goal.com now represents the biggest football community
in the world with 16 language version covering more than 210 countries,
enables users from all cultures and lifestyles to communicate through sharing
a great passion for football.

Inside the Goal.com community users can actively participate in live
discussion forums, create their own personal space to gather mail, articles,
share photos and videos.

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

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