Blinkx has modest ambitions, it wants to be the Google-for-video-search engine. It is on the right road, it just signed a big deal with Lycos, the 15th largest web site operator.

I spoke earlier today with a very excited Suranga Chandratillake, founder and CTO of blinkx. "This is our largest deal so far. We'll get to share in the advertising, and since we rely on viral marketing, we'll be able to get our name out to a much larger audience."

Blinkx uses voice recognition technology, plus tags, and user generated meta data to index videos. And with all the YouTube generated frenzy around online video, there are a lot of large and small companies that'll be needing video search capabilities.

I love the "video wall" on Blinkx's home page, you just scroll across and up pop videos and TV news reports from around the world.

Link to blinkx.tv

Lycos has been announcing quite a lot of video related activities:

August 2006

LYCOS ENHANCES BROADBAND HIGH QUALITY VIDEO CONTENT WITH LAUNCH OF UPDATE HOLLYWOOD, WITH MARTIN GROVE - 8.07.06

June 2006

LYCOS AND PERMISSIONTV TEAM UP TO BRING HIGH QUALITY VIDEO PLATFORM TO THE WEB, WITH LOOK AND FEEL OF TV - 6.20.06

Lycos kicks off "World Cup" mania with behind the scenes video coverage of all the craziness & none of the scores - 6.14.06