Blinkx is a video search engine company that is acquiring Burst Media for $30 million in stock and cash. Burst’s co-founders Jarvis Coffin and David Stein will stay on board at the combined company to help with the transition. Burst provides online video ad solution companies to web publishers. Burst made around $37.7 million in revenue last year. This is up from $31.4 million in 2009. [CNET]

Blinkx[1] is a video search engine company that aggregates video data from across the web. The company boasts an index of 12 million hours in video content. Blinkx plc was created when the company was spun-off from Autonomy and then set a price of 45 pence per share. As stocks were being traded, the price rose to 67.5 pence per share. This cause the video search engine to be worth £180 million ($355 million).

What the company will do with this much money now is still a mystery to me. But the company does have the advantage of striking partnerships with ChaCha, Quintura, the National Geographic Channel, Portfolio.com, Break.com, VideoJug, Motion.TV, YouAreTV, QVC, NBX, the World Fashion CHannel, and several other companies.

The company has headquarters in San Francisco, California and London, England. I found the financial information data on PaidContent[2].

[1] www.blinkx.com
[2] PaidContent article

Take a top video search engine and mix it with an innovative tag cloud search engine and what do you get?  A partnership between blinkx and Quintura.

blinkx will provide Quintura users the ability to search within 7 million hours of video content.   “blinkx’s large video index is a perfect compliment to our graphical user interface,” believes Yakov Sadchikov the CEO/Founder of Quintura. “As the Web becomes more visual and rich with content, people are looking for better ways to find video online. blinkx’s video search index combined with Quintura’s visual discovery engine provides users with a unique search experience. This new service has become possible due to technology innovations of our companies in visualizing search and indexing online video.”

What blinkx gets out the deal is traffic referrals from Quintura.  Quintura’s traffic cloud technology also gives other suggested searches that are relevant to the keywords that you asked for.  I tested out the service by just searching for Family Guy after I clicked on the blinkx tab on Quintura’s website.  Here are the results:

Google is not the only search engine that can utilize a partnership with a video website.  The blinkx-Quintura partnership proves that the Google-YouTube partnership has a strong opponent.

“I’m stunned how people aren’t seeing that with TV, in five years from now, people will laugh at what we’ve had,” insisted Bill Gates at the World Economic Forum this past Saturday in Switzerland. Blikx.com is one of the website that further proves the point of Bill Gates’ statement. Because of this week’s past DEMO conference, I found myself exploring different upcoming web companies including Splashcast, but I found the most addictive being blinkx which now boasts over 70 million hours of video content.

On the market as of right now, blinkx is the most advanced video search engine out there. To complement the video search services blinkx has also introduced a widget called ‘Blinx It’ to spider blogs and other websites and is able to generate contextual videos. To ensure that the videos are contextual, visual and speech recognition technology is utilized. Blinkx It allows bloggers, MySpace users, and other website owners to embed the video ads onto their websites and can custom build video walls as well. There is a sample video wall right on the Blinkx.com homepage and also on WebWare.

Blinkx has partnered with some very powerful content-provider players such as Atom Entertainment, A&E, Clevver Media, Boston.com, LYCOS, AOL’s StudyBuddy, QVC UK, and most recently, YouAreTV. Blinkx has partnered with some very powerful content-provider players such as Atom Entertainment, A&E, Clevver Media, Boston.com, LYCOS, AOL’s StudyBuddy, QVC UK, and most recently, YouAreTV. “blinkx is a privately-held firm, based in San Francisco and London and was founded in early 2004 by Suranga Chandratillake” according to the About page.