Internet Research Project

Blinkx is a great tool for finding up-to-date video news on popular culture as well as political news. It also serves as a means to find travel information in video form as well as media relevant to kids, teens and adults. The only problem I find with Blinkx is the requirements to actually view content. Many videos I attempted to watch were in a specific media type that my computer as well as a couple others could not view. A special media player was needed to view content; which made this website almost unnecessary. I then went to YouTube and was able to view the videos with no problem. So the hype and glamour of this relatively new database was downplayed by the inconvenience of installing a specific program.