TVEyes unveils first engine to search podcasts
12 April 2005
The first engine to search within a podcast, TVEyes' Podscope, has been launched.
The new service makes every word searchable within a podcast, enables the audio indexing of podcast content, which is equally applicable to video blogs and personal videos.
Real-time broadcast search provider TVEyes has announced that Podscope enables customers to search radio and TV recordings by keyword and will be made generally available later this month.
Podcasts are essentially downloadable radio programs distributed through RSS that can be put onto a digital media music player or iPod.
The announcement comes in the wake of TVEyes' recent partnership with Yahoo! to provide real-time broadcast search for Yahoo! TV.
TVEyes has been indexing television and radio broadcasts since 1999. The company crawls the web with Podscope looking for podcasts and creates an index against every word, making the contents searchable.
The user can search on a term, generate a list of results ranked by a variety of methods to find the most relevant podcast and click to play or click to download.
Allen Weiner, vice president and research director at Gartner, commented: "With a looming explosion in such user generated rich content as Podcasts and video blogs, there is a growing need to empower consumers to find and subscribe to programs that meet their diverse interests. Searching and indexing these varied audio and video programs will not only benefit content-hungry consumers, it also adds legitimacy and velocity to this burgeoning space."
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