Technology developed by Silicon Valley startup Divvio — remember, the guys who said they wanted to become the “Google of audio and video”? — powers the service. AT&T claims to have “hundreds of millions” of clips from “thousands of sites” already indexed, and some sample searches did turn up more robust results than what I found on competing video search services. My random searches turned up primarily clips from MySpace, Truveo, YouTube, and Jogli.

Like competitor Blinkx, VideoCrawler aims to add a social layer to the searching experience by letting you create playlists and embed them into your blogs or social network profiles via an embeddable widget. Its layout — which I personally found to be a bit clunky, with things like the “Results” window randomly toggling back and forth between my query and other generic offerings — is fully customizable, allowing you to drag and drop boxes at your will.

The site does not actually host any videos. It is fully ad-supported.

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Blinkx and Miva are no strangers to each other; the two have worked together in an ad sharing partnership for several years. Blinkx’ CEO stated that the “combination of the two companies would be mutually beneficial to both companies’ shareholders, employees, and customers” and that the two “complementary businesses … could benefit greatly from Blinkx’s technology and Miva’s distribution network.” (The letter is available to read in its entirety over at CenterNetworks.)

Miva’s president and chief marketing officer resigned from the company just a few days ago, saying he was leaving to “pursue other opportunities.”

Blinkx, incidentally, was the rumored to be on the buying block itself a few months. Reuters reported that Google, NewsCorp, and Yahoo were all looking at acquiring the company back in May.

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Reuters reports Google, along with NewsCorp and Yahoo, could all be considering a purchase. The company’s shares have been having a strong day with word of the news.

Blinkx has seen quite a bit of success since its launch four years ago. It sets itself apart by using a speech recognition utility to analyze the audio of uploaded content, thus letting users conduct more powerful searches. It claims to be the “world’s largest and most advanced video search engine” and says it sends out more content than any of its competitors.

Microsoft signed an agreement with Blinkx in 2006 to use its video searching technology. Blinkx has had deals with dozens of other companies, including NBC, MTV, and even YouTube.

Interestingly enough, the Dow Jones speculated a year ago that Blinkx hoped to “become the Google Inc. of the Internet video-search engine market.” It may just end up getting its wish, quite literally.

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