Mike Grehan - founder & CEO, Marketsmart opened the afternoon session on search. He mentioned at about 30 terrabytes are being crunched through by the major search engines right now.
Suranga Chandratillake - Founder & CTO, Blinkx, said most people were retrofitting text search around search instead of looking at the meta data inside the video. Blinkx cracks open the technology itself to look at video and audio.
"Blinkx Pico: Instead of having to actively search for things - stopping what you're doing, finding a search engine, figuring out what to search for, navigating pages of results and all that other stuff - Pico changes everything by bringing relevant results to you. Automatically."
He says Wikipedia is good because it's so well linked, someone has put them in. Pico tries to index large sites on the web so that when you are doing something on your PC it tries to understand where you want to go to next.
[Editors note: Chandratillake says Pico is in 'stealth mode' but I was shown it three years ago by Blinkx, although it was called something else I think].
He says the rules are changing very fast now with search online.
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