Autonomy, a famous British smart search engine company, entered China

Xinhuanet, Beijing, March 20 (Reporter Chang Xiaohua Duan Shiwen) the famous British smart search engine company Autonomy executive director Lynch recently visited China in a breeze, and initially reached a cooperation intention after "plotting" with Chinese partners. The two parties agreed that the cooperation amounted to hundreds of millions of yuan and will be mainly used to launch and promote the Chinese version of the smart search engine Blinkx.
Both Lynch and Wu Xin, chief representative of Autonomy Greater China, are reluctant to name their partners in China. According to Wu Xin, this is a large-scale telecom operator. There are indications that the telecom operator is most likely to be China Netcom. Autonomy is famous for its smart search technology, and Netcom's network TV business undoubtedly requires the powerful functions of this smart search technology. When the reporter turned to Autonomy for proof, its senior executives laughed and did not answer. However, China Netcom has not made any comments on whether to cooperate with Autonomy.
If the cooperation succeeds, Autonomy's Chinese territory will be greatly expanded, and Google and Baidu will face unprecedented challenges in leading the domestic search engine field. China Netcom's network TV business will also develop rapidly.
Wu Xin said that the Chinese version of Blinkx will be deployed in China.
Autonomy will invest 0.1 billion yuan in this project. He also said that the 0.1 billion yuan is only a seed fund, and the investment of its Chinese partners will be larger.
Professor Lynch of Cambridge University, founder of Autonomy, is hailed as "Bill Gates" of the UK ". In 1996, he borrowed money from venture capitalists to create Autonomy. At present, the net assets are more than USD 0.5 billion. Autonomy is the inventor of smart search technology and is currently an absolute leader in the commercial search market, accounting for more than 55% of the market share, the British police department, the US local security agency, the Defense Department, the space agency and other government departments, as well as General Electric appliances, General Motors and other enterprises, are their customers. However, it is not as famous as Google or Baidu in civil search.
In July 2004, Autonomy launched the search tool Blinkx through its holding company in San Francisco, USA. This tool provides functions similar to "fuzzy search" or "semantic search. After "learning" and accumulating some "experience", the system can meet users' search requirements such as "What is the cheapest laptop" and "Can the Chinese team win the World Cup. This is different from the traditional keyword-based search method. This search method is widely referred to as "intelligent search", and some media call it "divination-based search ".
The executive director of Autonomy, Lynch, told reporters that in terms of video and audio data search, the smart search engine has powerful functions and can accurately locate a frame technically, it can accurately search for audio and video materials required by users. Blinkx not only searches for text content, but also internet content and local area networks.
Blinkx can also search for different Text formats, such as Text, Word, Excel, PPT, PDF, and data formats in various databases. For government departments and enterprises with huge information processing capacity, this technology has epoch practical significance.
Lynch also revealed that it will increase the development of the traditional civilian search market. This is clearly targeted at Google and Baidu. However, Lynch admitted that due to the complexity of Chinese, "Chinese search must be very careful ".