Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Search for Couch Potatoes (01 Feb 2005) With a million users, Blinkx is off to a good start. But capturing the next million will be tough. Blinkx will have to reach out to the masses, who may be more apt to try new kinds of searches from trusted companies like Google and Yahoo. Attracting advertising may also be difficult. While it’s easy for advertisers to link their ads to keyword searches, it may be more difficult to place ads that are relevant to the contents of personal files, says David Burns, CEO of a competing desktop search company called Copernic of Sainte-Foy, Quebec. Article URL: http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/03/issue/forward_search.asp Read 224 more articles from Technology Review Magazine sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: The Future of the PC     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy