How to use the blinkx toolbar

The blinkx toolbar is displayed in the active window on your desktop, for example, your email, your Word application or your Internet browser. To become familiar with the blinkx toolbar you are going to use it within your Internet browser:

  1. Open a website (for example, http://news.bbc.co.uk/). The blinkx toolbar is displayed in the top right-hand corner of your browser:

  2. Highlight a section of text in your active window to search for results that are relevant to this bit of text:
  3. Wait until the icons on the toolbar become colored. This means that results are available.

You can now display the available results. First you are going to display Web results:

  1. Click on the icon. A list of web pages that are relevant to the open website is displayed:

  2. Drag your mouse over the listed results. Notice that the header of the result that your cursor is on turns blue. This means that this is the result that would open if you clicked your left mouse button.

Try this now:

  1. Drag your mouse over the listed results until the second header turns blue.
  2. Click on your left mouse button. The result now opens in a new window.
  3. Now, click on the other icons on the toolbar and try to display the results that they list.

If you click on the Local results icon, a list of documents, JPEG images, email contacts, MP3s, emails and email attachments on your computer that are relevant to the open website is displayed (email attachments are indicated by a paperclip).

If you click on the Web icon, a list of websites that are relevant to the open website is displayed.

If you click on the Products icon, a list of products that are relevant to the open website is displayed.

If you click on the Video icon, a list of video clips that are relevant to the open website is displayed.

If you click on the Web logs icon, a list of blogs that are relevant to the open website is displayed.


If you don't highlight any text in your active window, the toolbar automatically finds results that are relevant to all the contents of the window.

  1. Open a website (for example, http://www.cnn.com/). The blinkx toolbar is displayed in the top right-hand corner of your browser.
  2. Wait until the icons on the toolbar become colored. This means that results are available.
  3. You can now display the results the toolbar has found by clicking on the different icons as you did before.