Yahoo Audio Search
Filed in: Yahoo! — August 7th, 2005
Yahoo is the first major portal to introduce a search engine dedicated to finding music and other audio files on the Internet. The Aug. 3 launch is the latest effort by Yahoo and other Internet search portals to organize the growing number of multimedia files on the Web.
One of the key features of the new search tool is its ability to scan the music libraries of almost all legitimate online services selling digital tracks. To do so, Yahoo struck individual deals with more than 15 music services — including iTunes, MSN Music,
Napster, Rhapsody and Yahoo Music Unlimited — to aggregate their catalogs into a searchable index. Independent publishers can submit content to the index through Yahoo’s Media RSS.
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Thought:
I thought we can speak to a mic to do the “audio” search. 
Don’t think that you can find pirated songs downloads via Yahoo Audio Search. It is for those who are willing to purchase audio online, a good one-stop online songs shopping site. Some search results has a “sample” button that let you preview the audio.
Too bad, it does not search for chinese songs.
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August 7th, 2005 at 12:17 pm
Nice info. Yeah, it’s mostly for legal music which require you to pay for them. Chinese ones? Go Baidu (@@)
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August 7th, 2005 at 2:24 pm
isn’t baidu cleared its database of illegal downloads before it goes for IPO?
August 7th, 2005 at 3:13 pm
I think the podcast session should be free one.. (potentially)
many postcast MP3 files are created by amateurs, who would want to pay ?
August 7th, 2005 at 10:29 pm
http://mp3.lycos.com has been lauched for at least 3 years now.
August 8th, 2005 at 3:42 am
but lycos was never in the same house as yahoo