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Online video site Blinkx is branching out into music with the launch of Blinkx Music Beta, a search engine for online music videos. The front page is simple enough. You’re greeted with a search box, a list of top artists, and the ability to click a letter to see results starting with A through Z. You can search for artists, albums, or songs.
Unfortunately, the search index is pretty sparse. There are a number of songs, artists, and albums that return no results. And the search engine’s not that intelligent. While a search for Coldplay returns a fair number of results, searching for Cold Play or Caldplay results in a “no results matching your query” message. So you’d better not include a typo or not know the proper phrasing of your favorite band name. Heck, on a whim, I tried searching for Hootie and the Blowfish and got zero results, which normally wouldn’t upset me in the least. But Hootie & The Blowfish actually did return results.
Blinkx doesn’t host the videos on its own site. Instead, when you click on a song you’ll be taken to the page where the video rests, whether it be on YouTube, Last.fm, or another site. A Blinkx toolbar hangs out at the top of the screen to take you back to where you started or let you begin another search.
A fairly large number of videos I did find were cellphone recordings shot at concerts rather than professional music videos.
That’s the bad news. Here’s the good news: the Blinkxbox online video service keeps getting better. I got an email today letting me know that Blinkx had added a number of BBC TV shows which are now available to watch for free including episodes from the first two seasons of the original (William Hartnell) Doctor Who as well as episodes of The Young Ones, Hustle, and The League of Gentlemen.
[via VentureBeat]
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