Yahoo! Search Debuts Audio Search, the Largest Audio Index on the
Web Today; Offers Users the Most Extensive and Open Audio Index
on the Web With More Than 50 Million Audio Files Including Music
Downloads, Podcasts, Spoken Word and More
- Aug 4, 2005 08:00 AM (BusinessWire)
SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 4, 2005--Yahoo! Inc.
(Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, today introduced
Yahoo! Audio Search beta, the most open and comprehensive index of
audio files on the Web. Yahoo! Search is the first major search
engine to deliver an audio search product that provides users access
to over 50 million audio files from major music services and
independent publishers. Yahoo! Audio Search provides access to a
variety of audio files including podcasts, music downloads, albums
and spoken word such as newscasts, speeches, and interviews, as well
as other audio related information including music videos, album
reviews, artist images and artists websites. Yahoo! Audio Search is
currently available through Yahoo! Next at http://next.yahoo.com as
well as http://audio.search.yahoo.com .
The Yahoo! Audio Search index includes content from the Web and
Yahoo!'s Network properties such as Yahoo! Music as well as
partnerships with mainstream and independent providers such as
eMusic, GarageBand.com, Napster and RealNetworks(R)' Rhapsody(R).
Yahoo! Audio Search is also integrated with Yahoo! Video Search,
Yahoo! Image Search, and Yahoo! News Search to provide users with
access to other audio related content. In addition, Yahoo! Audio
Search enables independent publishers to submit content to the index
through Media Really Simple Syndication (Media RSS), providing users
open access to original and timely audio content.
Yahoo! Audio Search's integration with My Web 2.0
http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com , Yahoo!'s new social search engine,
enables users to save audio searches, creating a personal, searchable
Web of favorite audio Web pages. Moreover, My Web 2.0 users can share
their musical tastes with their communities by creating RSS feeds of
their saved Web pages.
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- http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=50919724
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