blinkx, the world's largest video search engine, today announced a partnership with Freecaster, the world's largest library of extreme sports clips. blinkx will index hours of Freecaster's premiere sports and music clips and make it fully searchable at www.blinkx.tv.


Under the terms of this agreement, blinkx users will have access to Freecaster's unique sporting and music clips. Users can find highlights from events like the Red Bull Air Race World Series, the Red Bull X Fighters and the Braun cruZer Tour. blinkx.tv will also feature Freecaster's major athlete and rock star profiles, as well as exciting extreme sports DVD trailers.


"We are thrilled to be partnering with blinkx," said Raymond Dulier, founder of Belgium-based Freecaster. "With blinkx's unique search technology, users will be able to access our quality extreme sports and music clips quickly and easily. This reinforces our motivation to constantly improve on our level of service and on the quality of our content which will remain accessible free of charge."


"We are pleased to add Freecaster's exciting sports and entertainment content to blinkx," said Suranga Chandratillake, CTO and Founder of blinkx. "This partnership will allow blinkx to further its commitment to providing users with the most comprehensive video search index on the Web."


As the pioneer in video search technology, blinkx has built a reputation as the smartest way to search new forms of online content such as video. With more than 100 partners and six million hours of indexed video and audio content, including favorite TV moments, news clips, short documentaries, music videos, video blogs and more, blinkx uses advanced speech recognition technology to deliver results that are more accurate and reliable than standard metadata-based keyword searches.