The most advanced video search engine is ready for an IPO
The owners of the advanced search engines of the new generation Autonomy and Blinkx have completed the merger process. It was logical, because the technology (search among unstructured heterogeneous information on patterns) is essentially the same, because the founder of Blinkx was Autonomy’s lead programmer who left the company and started his own business. Now the new-old company starts the next phase of its development.
The initial issue of shares is to take place on the alternative site of the London Stock Exchange in May 2007. It is planned to give the people only the Blinkx consumer unit, while the business of corporate search engines remains the property of Autonomy.
The Blinkx website searches for more than 7 million hours of video materials, including voice-over text (speech recognition works) and objects in the frame (image recognition). Add your video to the search index can any user.
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From the Blinx website, you can take a widget that will analyze the text of your blog and show relevant videos from the Internet. A similar program Blinx Pico created for the personal computer. It analyzes the text directly in the process of typing it (for example, when you are writing an e-mail or typing in Word) and uploads relevant contextual videos from the Internet.
Despite its innovativeness, the Blinkx search engine still brings losses to its owners. However, they expect to attract additional investment and implement an advertising model similar to the Google model.
Interestingly, Autonomy also tried to enter the mass market by launching in 2000 a program that can index almost all documents on a PC’s hard drive (about a hundred formats, including mail archives, graphic images, etc.) and search for unstructured data. But after a year or two, the program was quietly curtailed, and the company focused entirely on the release of corporate products.
Corporate segment brings a good profit. Autonomy's clients include the largest corporations in the world. For example, the BBC broadcaster uses their engine to index millions of hours of archived telecasts, and the Shanghai Stock Exchange to index documents on thousands of servers. The Autonomy engine is built into the corporate software of IBM, Oracle and Symantec. In I quarter. In 2007, Autonomy's pretax profit was $ 19.5 million, with revenue of $ 65.5 million.
In 2005, Autonomy made a second attempt to enter the mass market by entering into a partnership with the telecommunications company China Netcom and launching the Chinese search engine for Internet video OpenV. Shortly thereafter, the competing company Blinkx was acquired, which is now decided to float freely.
In general, a large movement is expected in the video search market. Not for nothing is AOL acquired the Truveo video search engine . In this market, there are other promising startups .
via Financial Times
The initial issue of shares is to take place on the alternative site of the London Stock Exchange in May 2007. It is planned to give the people only the Blinkx consumer unit, while the business of corporate search engines remains the property of Autonomy.
The Blinkx website searches for more than 7 million hours of video materials, including voice-over text (speech recognition works) and objects in the frame (image recognition). Add your video to the search index can any user.
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From the Blinx website, you can take a widget that will analyze the text of your blog and show relevant videos from the Internet. A similar program Blinx Pico created for the personal computer. It analyzes the text directly in the process of typing it (for example, when you are writing an e-mail or typing in Word) and uploads relevant contextual videos from the Internet.
Despite its innovativeness, the Blinkx search engine still brings losses to its owners. However, they expect to attract additional investment and implement an advertising model similar to the Google model.
Interestingly, Autonomy also tried to enter the mass market by launching in 2000 a program that can index almost all documents on a PC’s hard drive (about a hundred formats, including mail archives, graphic images, etc.) and search for unstructured data. But after a year or two, the program was quietly curtailed, and the company focused entirely on the release of corporate products.
Corporate segment brings a good profit. Autonomy's clients include the largest corporations in the world. For example, the BBC broadcaster uses their engine to index millions of hours of archived telecasts, and the Shanghai Stock Exchange to index documents on thousands of servers. The Autonomy engine is built into the corporate software of IBM, Oracle and Symantec. In I quarter. In 2007, Autonomy's pretax profit was $ 19.5 million, with revenue of $ 65.5 million.
In 2005, Autonomy made a second attempt to enter the mass market by entering into a partnership with the telecommunications company China Netcom and launching the Chinese search engine for Internet video OpenV. Shortly thereafter, the competing company Blinkx was acquired, which is now decided to float freely.
In general, a large movement is expected in the video search market. Not for nothing is AOL acquired the Truveo video search engine . In this market, there are other promising startups .
via Financial Times
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/7564/
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