Yahoo! launches Audio Search
4 August 2005
Internet giant Yahoo! has unveiled its new music/audio search service in beta testing mode.
The firm said the new Audio Search tool is capable of searching through 50 million music, voice and other audio files and also supports podcast search.
Yahoo!'s new service enables users to search sites, news and photos of artists, information about albums and songs and links to music download sites. The service at audio.search.yahoo.com offers three different categories of files: music, podcasts and other.
Most major legitimate music download sites have agreed to provide Yahoo! with lists of their songs and will pay the internet portal a commission on every song sold. Yahoo!'s Audio Search index contains a total of 50 million audio files, some of which are duplicates.
"The product rounds out our multimedia offerings," said Bradley Horowitz, director of Yahoo's technology development.
The current version of Yahoo! Audio Search does not feature advertising, though the company is expected to include adverts at a later date.
Yahoo! Audio will not include songs from file-sharing sites such as Kazaa and Grokster, which often feature illegal downloads and the web company has pledged to remove any song featured on the site if a record label complains.
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