Search company Blinkx is making waves as a media-search portal. It's unique (as far as I know) voice-recognition crawling identifies podcasts by keywords spoken in the podcasts. This represents an evolutionary leap above iTunes 4.9, which was just released yesterday. Blinkx is mashing together its TV-video search with the new podcast voice-recog search, in a way that isn't netirely successful according to my testing so far. Supposed video results are actually podcast results, so the instruction to click a link to see a video actually downloads and launches an audio podcast. A bit of futzing around does reveal video results, which stream nicely in a pop-up video player (user's choice of Windows Media or Real). The video results likewise appear to be driven by voice recognition, or perhaps crawling of closed-caption transcripts, a la Google Video. The distinction from Google, though, is that Blinkx actually plays the darn things, whereas Google merely displays snippets of text.