Blinkx (Lonon AIM:BLNX.L) is an Internet search engine for video and audio content, based in San Francisco, that allows searching and classification of audio files, video clips and streaming media. Blinkx’s video search engine differs by using speech recognition to listen to the audio component of the video content, and then uses both the phonetic and text transcripts to match content with search queries. blinkx also indexes and searches podcasts and video blogs. It claims to be the largest deep indexed Video search engine with 18 million hours indexed and agreements with over 242 content companies.