Comments on: Blinkx to Launch

By: cobal

cobal — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 11:58:40 +0000

Wouldnt surprise me if they were keeping quiet about this because of potential conflicts with A9?

By: Anthony

Anthony — Wed, 17 Nov 2004 19:08:21 +0000

Hi Rob-

I wanted to respond to your message above. That is werid you had problmes with blinkx 2.0, it took me no time at all to get on my pc. I did have some inital problems with the 1.0 version so i just emailed the feedback email address and they got back to me right away with answers. you should try that if yo uare still have issues.

By: Jane

Jane — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 20:28:50 +0000

I agree with you Simone, blinkx is great because of the implicit query feature , that looks up what you are interested in. it took me like 3 mins to download as well, i highly reccomend this desktop searcher.

By: Simone

Simone — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 19:55:12 +0000

Blinkx 2.0 came out the other day. When I downloaded it, it took all of 3 minutes. There were no problems and I was busy searching my hard drive and the web simultaneously, within minutes. What I really like about Blinkx is that it’s implicit query feature actually learns what kind of topics interest me.

By: manoj

manoj — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 19:31:47 +0000

I haven’t had any problems with indexing- blinkx took care of my 60gig hd overnight as well. the conceptual search gives me some pretty relevant results, and with the smart folder function i don’t even have to be at my computer to do research. you can’t exactly do that with keyword search.

By: Kendall Willets

Kendall Willets — Mon, 16 Aug 2004 18:38:34 +0000

You know, grep is the only format-independent search tool, except for some more obscure indexing utilities like one I'm working on. Most tools require a parser that knows the source file format and can cope with errors, etc. Grep can find any string in any file format, provided it's encoded the way you think it is when you write the regexp.

The only problem is multi-document files like mbox'es, or other concatenated archives. Then you don't know which document got the hit, unless you also know and search for the delimiters between docs.

And, of course, there's that O(n) search time.

By: justin

justin — Mon, 16 Aug 2004 15:42:46 +0000

i’m quite happy in my linux desktop bubble…..

find /home/justin -print | xargs grep -s ‘Monday meeting agenda’

By: John Williams

John Williams — Mon, 16 Aug 2004 09:24:53 +0000

This tool is good. Kewl. I have installed and its running smooth. Good Search Result as far as Local Hard Drive goes. Catch: Doesnt have support for Network Drives.

John w.
OCP-DBA, MCDBA, MCSE, CCNA
16-Aug-2004

By: greyser

greyser — Sun, 15 Aug 2004 08:51:18 +0000

John, I bet you havn't tried it...when you do you find this is different to search. With search you have to decide to look for something. Blinkx gets compulsive as you wander around from page to page learning new things you didn't even know were there (or know to seach for). It does haqve all the usual keyword stuff as well for the web, your email hardisk etc. Horses were all I needed to get around town till I start using the car!

Simon -I downloaded it from download.com but its also on Blinkx.com

By: Simon

Simon — Sun, 15 Aug 2004 00:24:42 +0000

Any body remember a program called Kenjin... came out a few years ago... Claimed to do what Blinkx is doing now! So it's not a new concept. Only Kenjin didn't really work and sank with out trace, as far as I can tell!

I'm downloading the 0.3.122 beta for Mozilla... Will give it a try... sounds like it has some pretty cool features! Better than Kenjin managed!

Here is a link to a Kenjin article... For your information...
http://www.autonomy.com/c/content/Press/Archives/2000/0329.html

Hmmm... looking at the article, there is no way to download the application... so perhaps distribution was where they failed!

Sure it's free.. but how do we get it???