blinkx, the world's largest video search engine, today announced a content partnership with VODEO.TV, a leading Video-On-Demand portal dedicated to information and discovery in the French-speaking world. Under the terms of the agreement, blinkx will transcribe and index VODEO.TV's video content, making it easy for users to find and watch at http://www.blinkx.com/.


VODEO.TV makes thousands of documentaries and popular television programs available online on topics from nature, travel, and science to current affairs and sports and leisure. Today, audiences can view or purchase more than 3,000 programs via remote loading, streaming or DVD-on-Request.


"With more people around the world turning to the Web for TV shows and movies, we're thrilled to expand our international user base by partnering with VODEO.TV and growing the French content in our search index," said Suranga Chandratillake, founder and CEO, blinkx.


"We are excited to partner with blinkx. With their innovative approach to searching rich media content, new audiences all over the world will be able to find programs about the subjects they are fond of and view our trailers and shows," said Frederic Pie, CEO of VODEO.TV.


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 150 partners and 7,000,000 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.