blinkx Partners with Dogwoof.com to Bring Independent Movies to Internet Users


SAN FRANCISCO and LONDON, October 22 /PRNewswire/ --

- Festival Films and Unique Film Content Now Fully Searchable at
blinkx.com

blinkx, the largest video search engine, today announced a partnership
with Dogwoof.com, a leading independent film distributor, to index its online
film content. Under the terms of the agreement, blinkx will transcribe and
index video content from Dogwoof.com, making it easy for users to find and
watch at http://www.blinkx.com.

Dogwoof.com leverages many years of traditional film distribution
experience to capitalize on the power and immediacy of digital media, and
deliver independent films to consumers whenever and wherever they want.
Dogwoof.com offers both its own independently-produced content, as well as
festival films from around the world.

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 14 million hours of indexed video and audio content, including 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.

"blinkx sees a huge number of film-related searches each day," said
Suranga Chandratillake, founder and CEO, blinkx. "We're delighted to be able
to offer our users access to Dogwoof.com's first-class entertainment
content."

"We're pleased to be working with blinkx to make Dogwoof.com's content
available to audiences around the world," said Andy Whittaker, CEO,
Dogwoof.com. "blinkx's technology enables users to search video much more
easily, whether it's interviews, archive footage, or the latest independent
film."

One of the European distribution community's leading figures in embracing
new technology, Dogwoof launched the digital screen network in the U.K. with
"King's Game," and in 2005 simultaneously released the thriller feature "EMR"
to cinema, DVD, and over the Internet. The company is also working on a
movie-themed start-up Internet service that will be announced shortly.

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 based in San Francisco and London. More information is available at
http://www.blinkx.com.

About Dogwoof.com

Leading digital film distributor Dogwoof.com combines the experience of
traditional distribution for movies with online and digital distribution.
Dogwoof is one of the leading independent film distributors, and has
distributed such celebrated films as the Italian feature "Don't Move"
("Non ti Muovere"), starring Penelope Cruz; Hungary's "Fateless"
("Sorstalansag"); the political thriller "King's Game"; as well as recent
indie successes "Man Push Cart," "Grbavica," "Black Gold" and "A Crude
Awakening." Dogwoof is shortly releasing some innovative services to enable
Independents to more effectively distribute their content. For more
information, visit http://www.dogwoof.com.

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



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