(the San Francisco-based video-search engine for those of you who really need to know all the trivia) now sports a new search tool! It makes it much easier for us mere mortals to find entire episodes of tv shows, such as Lost, 24, and Desperate Housewives. Called Blinkx Remote, it offers a quick, concise way to find TV shows and related information, instead of having to wade through video-search results that include partial clips of shows, commentaries, and random collections of episodes in no particular order.
Blinkx Remote appears at the top of Blinkx search results when you search for the title of a show. It also lets you pin down the exact season and episode. In addition, it offers links to information about the shows from other online sources such as Wikipedia and IMDB.com, Amazon, iTunes, etc., in the hope of enticing you to purchase DVDs or high-quality downloads.
Suranga Chandratillake, cofounder and CTO of Blinkx says: "Within the past six months, more and more full-length television shows have arrived on the Web. And within the past three months, people have started to change the way they search for online video. Instead of just looking for highlights from The Daily Show, for instance, people are looking for ways to watch the whole show. There's been a massive increase in TV content online, and users have caught up with that reality."
Read his interview with Tracy Swedlow on ITVT 's news blog. VERY informative!
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