Comments on: Blinkx Boosts Revenues 115 Percent (But Is Still Losing Money)

By: gogetemguy

gogetemguy — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:38:24 +0000

wow John, what a plug! who paid you for that?
A) The company is run horribly.
B) Their technology is all LICENSED from an enterprise search company called Autonomy, i.e. their CEO/Founder hasn’t created anything new
C) To Sally’s point the majority of revenue comes from Adult ads and content, so while they claim millions and millions of hours of video, the VAST majority is adult and YouTube replayed

get a clue pal!

By: john

john — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:08:53 +0000

excellent company with great tech…thanks for the article…

they are the biggest video earch engine!!

By: Benji

Benji — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:47:32 +0000

OVGuide and Truveo are the two sites that really do this well IMHO. Blinkx has cool technology, but having ads on the videos before establishing an organic userbase (and profit margin) is a huge deterrent.

Search technology is all about the results, not the design. Google hasn’t changed their layout in a decade or so, but the accuracy keeps it on top. If you build it (and it works), they will come.

By: Yasser

Yasser — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 03:55:10 +0000

Overpriced. Another case of growing too fast for your own good.

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By: Sally

Sally — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 03:29:06 +0000

Did the CEO tell you that the majority of revenue comes from adult content search? Type adult and your search term.

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ONLINE SERVICES/INTERACTIVE MEDIA « Daily Marauder — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 03:20:30 +0000

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By: Envy

Envy — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 02:08:10 +0000

Thats is not the model, they are a video search… They index videos (using voice to text), think of them as a GOOGLE for video, not at all the same as youTube ….

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By: John

John — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 01:20:49 +0000

I agree with Chris.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:55:05 +0000

First of all, is it just me or is it odd to see such a young, and still less-than-profitable, company be publicly traded? Secondly, I checked their stock prices and it doesn’t seem that investors are really that excited about such amazing growth. Perhaps the world feels the same way as ispy does..

By: teraom

teraom — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:11:24 +0000

When blinkx let users monetize videos, the percentage given out was too high. Did not take sense. Optimistic, but many a times unrealistic. Its not a huge shock to see them going down..

By: josphine

josphine — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:11:18 +0000

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By: ispy

ispy — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:08:58 +0000

Youtube & Truveo have this market locked up. Move on…