Founder of BLINKX departs

Blinkx was touted as the new google competitor

[Shak]

IT IS just as well Kathy Rittweger knows all about “search”. After a bust-up at Blinkx, the internet search company she founded, the engaging American entrepreneur is looking for a new job.

Unfortunately, Kathy has fallen out with her partner, Suranga Chandratillake, the former technology whiz at Autonomy.

Blinkx appears to have conducted its own intuitive search for Rittweger’s replacement. Mark Opzoomer, who used to run Yahoo in Europe, was appointed chief executive only days after Rittweger gave an upbeat interview to The Times.

In an e-mail, Rittweger told us: “I have left Blinkx. But I’m bound by confidentiality and cannot discuss the ‘why’.”

[timesonline.co.uk...]

Shak

original article: [webmasterworld.com...]

[jmccormac]

Google and Microsoft launching desktop search probably banjaxed Blinkx's chances of cashing in.

Regards...jmcc