Yahoo Launches Audio Search (impressive)
Thursday, August 04, 2005
Saw this on InsideGoogle,
http://audio.search.yahoo.com/
This is an extremely nifty release. Take these example searches and results:
(Purposely testing with lesser known artists)
Venetian Snares: Search
Clicking the artist brings up a discography and list of albums.
Clicking the song gives a list of legal locations for download, cost, quality, format, ability to burn to cd,
Quick links include Y! music link to artist, biographys and reviews.
There is also a matching artists page on the right hand side to give quick access to discographies of searched terms.
From the discography page:
Format: Album Cover, Title (Record Label, Year of Release)
Sort releases by popularity, date and title.
On the right Yahoo automatically searches images, the web and video and displays the first results from each in a single column.
Find CD link under each album links to Yahoo shopping and gives a list of online outlets to purchase the cd.
For more well known artists there are "Similar artist" links also.
Clicking an album cover takes you to the " album browser":
This lets you quickly browse an artists albums. On clicking from the browser you are presented with a tracklisting and all the available legal online download locations for that song.
You can also select your preferred audio service from one of these:
Moving on to Podcasts:
Search for engadget: Engadget Podcast
Notice the last published date and direct link to the RSS feeds.
Here's another podcast search: BBC
There's also an "other audio" option which I have yet to try.
quote:
Yahoo has apparently decided that, now that they have an ad network targeted at bloggers, it is time for them to release all of their blog-related services in development. As a result, here is Yahoo Audio Search, which can find you podcasts. According to The New York Times, Yahoo claims to have indexed 50 million music, voice and other audio files.
The service will also display links to the online sites where users can pay to download a song. Most major music sites have agreed to send Yahoo lists of their songs and pay a commission on every song sold. The current version of the service has no advertising, but Mr. Horowitz said ads might be added later.
You can refine your searches by music, podcasts or other audio, by song, artist or album, by format (RAM, MP3, MIDI, WMA or AAC) by duration (more or less than a minute), by web & audio services or audio services only, and by major releases or to include alternates, imports, EPs, etc.. Smartly, the podcast results have links to the RSS feeds.
http://audio.search.yahoo.com/
This is an extremely nifty release. Take these example searches and results:
(Purposely testing with lesser known artists)
Venetian Snares: Search
Clicking the artist brings up a discography and list of albums.
Clicking the song gives a list of legal locations for download, cost, quality, format, ability to burn to cd,
Quick links include Y! music link to artist, biographys and reviews.
There is also a matching artists page on the right hand side to give quick access to discographies of searched terms.
From the discography page:
Format: Album Cover, Title (Record Label, Year of Release)
Sort releases by popularity, date and title.
On the right Yahoo automatically searches images, the web and video and displays the first results from each in a single column.
Find CD link under each album links to Yahoo shopping and gives a list of online outlets to purchase the cd.
For more well known artists there are "Similar artist" links also.
Clicking an album cover takes you to the " album browser":
This lets you quickly browse an artists albums. On clicking from the browser you are presented with a tracklisting and all the available legal online download locations for that song.
You can also select your preferred audio service from one of these:
quote:
None
ArtistDirect
AudioLunchbox
BuyMusic.com
dMusic
eMusic
Epitonic
GarageBand
iTunes
Livedownloads
MP34U
MSN Music
Musicmatch
Napster
PassAlong
RealPlayer Music Store
Rhapsody
SoundClick
Yahoo! Music Unlimited
Moving on to Podcasts:
Search for engadget: Engadget Podcast
Notice the last published date and direct link to the RSS feeds.
Here's another podcast search: BBC
There's also an "other audio" option which I have yet to try.
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