Comments on: Autonomy Takes Over Blinkx, Plans London IPO http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/04/autonomy-takes-over-blinkx-plans-london-ipo.html Internet Marketing News Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:00:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: L. Davis http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/04/autonomy-takes-over-blinkx-plans-london-ipo.html/comment-page-1#comment-25155 L. Davis Thu, 26 Apr 2007 10:32:19 +0000 http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/04/autonomy-takes-over-blinkx-plans-london-ipo.html#comment-25155 Yes, Blinkx is a cool product, but the Autonomy/Blinkx story seems to go deeper than described in Autonomy's press release today. Two sites that may be of interest: <a href="http://www.newmediamusings.com/blog/2005/09/blinkx_a_citize.html/" rel="nofollow">JD Lasica's New Media Musings, September 2005</a> Lasica speculates that Mike Lynch (Autonomy CEO)was hesitant (in 2005)to associate Autonomy to Blinkx for fear of it becoming Kenjin 2.0 Kenjin was Autonomy's first Web search product; great theory, not so great product. It bombed, but not before Lynch had told the world how brilliant it was, and how it was going to turn the search world around. Also <a href="http://gigaom.com/2007/04/25/blinkx-ipo/" rel="nofollow">GigaOm: Blinkx, finally serves its purpose</a> Om Malik saw Blinkx for the first time several years ago, and has periodically written about it. The really dumb thing? Both Autonomy and Blinkx are using wickedly innovative technology and developing some great products, yet by playing the smoke/mirror game, they appear puerile. Sadly, if the game was a marketing attempt, it fell on its butt. Yes, Blinkx is a cool product, but the Autonomy/Blinkx story seems to go deeper than described in Autonomy’s press release today.

Two sites that may be of interest:

JD Lasica’s New Media Musings, September 2005

Lasica speculates that Mike Lynch (Autonomy CEO)was hesitant (in 2005)to associate Autonomy to Blinkx for fear of it becoming Kenjin 2.0 Kenjin was Autonomy’s first Web search product; great theory, not so great product. It bombed, but not before Lynch had told the world how brilliant it was, and how it was going to turn the search world around.

Also

GigaOm: Blinkx, finally serves its purpose

Om Malik saw Blinkx for the first time several years ago, and has periodically written about it.

The really dumb thing?

Both Autonomy and Blinkx are using wickedly innovative technology and developing some great products, yet by playing the smoke/mirror game, they appear puerile. Sadly, if the game was a marketing attempt, it fell on its butt.

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