Yahoo executive to head up Blinkx
Published: 02 Nov 2004 13:14 GMT
Mark Opzoomer, former head of Yahoo Europe, will be the new CEO of Blinkx, a San Francisco company whose search engines scout the Net and the desktop alike. Opzoomer, who had been Yahoo's European managing director for two years until December 2003, is expected to expand the startup's operations and handle business development and marketing. For 20 years, Opzoomer worked with the UK-based Virgin Group and Sega Enterprises.
Blinkx recently announced a search technology that looks up links before the user asks for it. The free tool uses self-learning algorithms that scrutinize the content a user is viewing and automatically initiate a search progress both the Internet as well as on the user's PC.
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Blinkz is a hosting company. BLINKX is a search en... a correct user -
Noted and corrected. Thank you for your feedb... Alex Coby -
Blinkx certainly seem to have upped the search gam... Robert Bush
