Is this one?

**Mogga** · 09-08-04

Is anyone brave enough to install it?

http://www.blinkx.com/overview.php

**Emma AdSelect** · 09-08-04

Well there's a link to the BBC web site on there, and seems genuine enough.

I wouldn't like to use it personally though.

**Graham@Buyagift** · 09-08-04

Quite a few news articles about this a few weeks back (NMA etc). I would dig them out but i'm off home and the weather's taken a turn for the worse with the road outside currently resembles the river Thames!

Graham

**Rich** · 09-08-04

I hope there isn't any as they have had a lot of press coverage recently - I was looking into their PR company earlier

They do say: -

Blinkx is totally against the principles behind spyware and adware. User's usage of the Internet is private to them and should never be passed on or used by third parties.
http://www.blinkx.com/content/about.php

So they should be ok - but I haven't tried downloading it.

**gerry180** · 10-08-04

I installed it on a PC yesterday. Not sure what I should look for in terms of rogue apps it may have credited me with.

Within a few seconds of displaying this thread it finds a number of news items on spyware. Nothing pops-up though until you click an icon in the title bar of your app (IE, word, Excel, Outlook).

Also, attempts to search for relevant content in websites, weblogs, news, products and any local documents. Occasionally it does this quite well sometimes not so well.

Probably more accurate when viewing or editing something on a specific subject matter.

I guess it also raises privacy and legal issues similar to the Gmail email service.