Blinks.tv has surpassed Google and Yahoo as the leading video search engine on the market, having indexed so far 4.000.000 hours of audio, video and TV content and making it fully available to its audience, reads a release posted on Blinkx.com.

"The last twelve months have seen an explosion of online, user-generated content. Straightforward tools and a cheaper, faster Internet have made it possible for everyone to be a producer, an author, a composer, and more important a publisher," said Suranga Chandratillake, founder, blinkx. "First, podcasting and video-blogs, and now short form user-generated content - or what I call 'Garage TV' - have become tremendously popular on the numerous video sharing sites. The volume of this material will soon rival that of online content from the traditional media groups. Just as CNN and the BBC have long been silos of trusted news content, YouTube, Google Video and others are fast-becoming the home for all kinds of Garage TV."

The site, privately owned by companies based in San Francisco and London, serves over 3.5 million video search queries each day. Its success is related directly to the patented search technologies that involve an automated speech and video recognition engine, compared with the traditional metadata keyword search service.