Microsoft signs deal with Blinkx who will provide search functionality for MSN video. According to Suranga Chandratillake Blinkx co-founder and CTO, this could mean millions of dollars in additional revenue.
Blinx goes way beyond searching through text titles, descriptnios and user defined tags, into decoding words from speech and even attempting to recognise images. In video terms, this is like jumping from a meta tag engine to Google.
In a post a few days ago, I was talking about the greater funding provided by the major search engines to advance voice recognition for mobile search , so, I’m all in favour of the move by Microsoft. Which I think will only help research and development in this exciting area of search.
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