From Wendy Boswell,
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Looking for financial news? Now you can search for financial news through Blinkx, a video search engine that incorporates financial content from sources such as the Wall Street Journal Online, MarketWatch.com and Barron's Online.

Now, it's not just a matter of finding and watching financial news videos here. Blinkx uses speech recognition technology to find what you're looking for within the spoken word; for instance, if you've got a hankering to watch a video all about coffee futures, you'll be able to find it pretty easily here by using that phrase.

In addition, you have more than just one viewing option at Blinkx: because Blinkx transcribes viewing content, you can subscribe to RSS feeds of whatever financial news provider you'd like to keep up with, upload it through iTunes, or pop it onto your iPod or mobile video player. It's a pretty versatile way to stay on top of the latest breaking financial news, that's for sure.

The easiest way to access financial news content at Blinkx is this: just type in Wall Street Journal or Barron Online or Market Watch into the main search field.

Now, Blinkx's search isn't the best. It's somewhat tricky to find an individual news clip; you're going to get a wide variety of search results back and not all of them are going to be particularly relevant. This absolutely needs to be fixed in order for Blinkx to pull more folks in; it shouldn't be that difficult to find the most recent segment of Market Watch if that's what I'm looking for.

What I would like to see at Blinkx are individual subject channels, with providers clearly delineated within each channel. So if I wanted financial news, I would go to the Money channel (just an example), click on the Market Watch button, and see a chronological listing of all the MW programs. This would be a lot more intuitive than the current search interface.

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