Blinkx improves multimedia search engine.

(InfoWorld) - Blinkx has enhanced its Blinkx.tv multimedia search engine by creating an online library where amateurs and professionals can upload, for free, videos they have created to make them available for viewing to Web searchers, the company announced Monday.

Videos submitted to the library, called My Blinkx.tv, get transformed into Flash format, and whatever is said in them is transcribed and indexed. The videos are also tagged with metadata, such as their creation date, length, title, owner's name and any other relevant information about them.

Once that process is done, videos can be retrieved and viewed by visitors to My Blinkx.tv via keyword searches through the My Blinkx.tv service. At press time, the service wasn't yet operational.

My Blinkx.tv visitors will also be able to create "channels" based on a specific search term. For example, a user might create a channel for all videos that My Blinkx.tv finds for the search term "Hurricane Katrina," said Blinkx founder Suranga Chandratillake.

Once a channel is created, My Blinkx.tv will continue populating it in the background with new videos that match the corresponding search terms, so that the next time users access their channels, they will see videos that have been added to them. "We use cookies to save channels on the site, so the next time you visit we know who you are and which clips you've got," he said.

Users who clear their browser cookies, lose their My Blinkx.tv channels, he said. If there is demand for it, Blinkx may add a log-in system to let users register and keep their channels without the need for cookies to retain them. But for the moment "we don't want to be intrusive," Chandratillake said.SEE ALSO:

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