Ask.com has signed blinkx, the video search engine, to be used in conjunction with its own search service.
Blinkx will provide video search results for Ask.com, giving it access to its video search library. The revenue will be split for each search that Ask.com users click on, as well as advertising when users go to media partner sites. This is not the first search engine Blinkx has partnered with. Other major search engine partners include MSN and AOL. Other partnerships include Sproose, National Geographic, ChaCha, Quintura, and LookSmart.
Blinkx has also gone ahead with its IPO, indicating its preparedness in expanding the company and becoming a recognizable standard in video search engine technology. It's long tail approach to partnering with several other search engines is proving to be more than beneficial to Blinkx.