Melanie McBride picks up on a story in the Guardian about Blinkx, the little search engine that might just pose a desktop challenge to Google.
Victor Keegan's piece paints a lovely vignette of Kathy Rittweger's early attempts to promote the new engine, which she developed after leaving Autonomy along with her current business partner. Google and Autonomy occupy two powerful niches in the search sector, so something that combines the best points of both of them would be potentially very useful.
Downloaded the software after reading the articles. Interesting stuff.
However, on their site they claim they aren't competing with Google. Can see why, they have a much wider offering. Blinkx not only searches the Web (including video and audio files) but also HD. This could be big if they get it right.