I’ve just found a cool site called Blinx which searches a wide variety of online news, entertainment and commercial video sources so that you can find interesting and useful clips for your research, writing or fun.

It’s backed by ITN, who produce most of the independent TV news programmes in the UK.

For example, today I found a useful 4 minute interview from Reuters with the CEO of Philips Electronics UK. Not being able to get Reuters any other way, I would have missed this otherwise.

I’ve only just scratched the surface of what it does. Top name sources include NBC, GMTV, ABC, Times Online, BBC News, CNN, ITN (of course), CBS, Eurosport, New York Times, Sky, and Bloomberg.

It will certainly be added to my bookmark list. It seems that all of this content is freely available on the source web sites, but this tool saves you the trouble of visiting a score of different sites just to get the latest on particular topics.

Anyone else used this? What do you think?