blinkx Launches Pico, the World’s Smallest Search Engine
Pico Mines the Latent Web, Making Implicit Connections and Dynamically Delivering Highly Relevant Information to Users
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. - MARCH 7th, 2006 - blinkx, the smartest thing on your computer and on the Web, today launched Pico, an entirely new way to navigate the next-generation Web. Today, searching the Web is a disruptive experience — users are forced to interrupt the activity they have at hand, go to a search engine, enter a search and examine the results for relevant material. Pico, a free 1MB download available at www.blinkx.com, revolutionizes the search process, by bringing relevant information to users, and organizing it for them, proactively and automatically.
Pico appears as an unobtrusive series of channels at the top of your desktop, each representing a different type of content: news, blogs, video, Web, Wikipedia, images, shopping, and “people”, which retrieves information from online communities, including MySpace.com.
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