Yahoo developing an audio search engine

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Web giant Yahoo is developing a search engine for finding downloadable songs and music data from across the Internet, CNET News.com has learned.

The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company plans to introduce the music search engine within the next couple of months, according to a source familiar with the service. The specialty engine will let people search on an artist's name, for example, and retrieve all the available songs from other music services, as well as album reviews and band information from Yahoo Music.

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#1 Express on 06 May 2005 - 14:51

Will it be like the search on this page: http://windowsmedia.com/ ?

#2 jameswjrose on 06 May 2005 - 15:01

The info is rather vague, there is already a good site for song, artist, album searching

www.ubl.com (Ultimate Band List)

Im hoping Yahoo's is more feature full.

#3 Lucida on 06 May 2005 - 15:02

good for them

#4 KayMan2K on 06 May 2005 - 15:10

This just seems like an extension of the Launch database. Should be good.

#5 entropyx on 06 May 2005 - 19:37

Sounds boring

(1 reply) #6 Andos on 07 May 2005 - 07:19

An audio search engine will only be a breakthrough when you can search on lyric texts or sing in a part of the meoldy in your microfone and it would return the sonds with the closest match.

Remember how hard it is to find out a song's name if you only know a part of the melody. Well, sing it in and find the name

If that existed, it would be awesome

#6.1 Logie on 07 May 2005 - 11:18

Weren't they working on that for cellphones?

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