Internet Week > Search Engines > Search Underdog To Take On Google, Microsoft, And Amazon > September 29, 2004

Internet Week > Search Engines > Search Underdog To Take On Google, Microsoft, And Amazon > September 29, 2004
"Search Underdog To Take On Google, Microsoft, And Amazon
By Thomas Claburn
Courtesy of InformationWeek

Sometime soon, Amazon.com, Apple Computer, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo may realize that a San Francisco-based startup named Blinkx has found what they've been looking for--a better way to search.
Blinkx 2.0, available as beta software, will be released within the next two weeks. Blinkx, which is free, takes the form of a toolbar that appears across applications such as Microsoft's Office and Outlook and Web browsers, and generates both proactive and reactive search results. Proactive searches require keywords or full sentence queries, while reactive searches deliver results based on a summarization of a document's content. "