According to blinkx founder Suranga Chandratillake, podcasting is one of the fastest growing mediums ever, with large amounts of new content coming out daily. Insight into Suranga's mindset sheds light on the reasoning behind the newest feature to be integrated into the blinkx search engine: the ability to search podcasts.
blinkx officially debuted their new ability to analyze, decipher, and index the growing amount podcasts and video blogs (vlogs), giving users to ability to conduct keyword-based queries in order to find podcasts and vlogs of interest. By making use of their proprietary speech recognition and video analysis software instead of just metadata, blinkx can offer a thorough multimedia-based index, with all of the content supporting user-initiated keyword searches.
To learn more about the blinkx recognition software, press release, Suranga offered some words concerning the intentions of this latest blinkx update, "The volume of rich media content online continues to explode, but traditional search engines such as Google and Yahoo were developed for text-based keyword searches, not for audio or video content. The prevalence of broadband and multimedia is driving demand for next generation search capabilities, and blinkx is the only technology that can offer this to Web users."
This means that while blinkx certainly supports text-based queries, their index is obviously not limited to that style of content. Again, blinkx credits their ability to support rich media to their voice and video recognition indexing software.
Not only does blinkx have the means to understand what they are trying to index, they also have a number of spiders crawling the web looking for new podcasts and vlogs, which ensures their index will remain fresh and current, provided people continue to produce them. Users can also submit their podcasts and vlogs to blinkx, which can be done so by murdok. Visit murdok for the
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