Blinkx.com Video Search API or More?

Video Search engines – Cannes Fringe talks to Blinkx.com about how their technology works to categorise videos through advanced video scanning that apparently looks at each video and listens to the audio and watches each frame to actually identify the subject and therefore category of the video. This is promised to give users a much more contextual search result.How it does this we’d love to know, according to Frederico Grosso SVP of Business Development for blinkx.com, the technology is protected by some 100+ patents. Well – we asked if the video search could go deeper than just the usual API spidering that we see on most video search sites where the video sites have to submit their feeds to get listed, or for instance could blinkx.com identify and categorise a single .mov file sitting on a web server / page some place – something we feel a real video search engine, hopfully one day should be able to do? The answer was not too clear, and apparently the system currently seems to just search and categorise hosted videos on sites such as youtube, metacafe and the rest of the API based video website - you know the usual suspects.

Blinkx.com is indeed a very good video search destination and under test it does return some very interesting and in-depth search results from a very wide - if not the widest we’ve seen group of sites – even if they do all seem to be API based and from the major video sites and not free “video file formats”. But if your looking for a good video search tool to point out what videos are out there on the growing number of video websites Blinkx.com would seem to be a good choice, for users and networks looking for a video search partner.