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Yahoo Launches Test of Audio Search Engine

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on August 4, 2005 - 5:24am.
Sunnyvale, Calif. -- Yahoo on Thursday launched a test version of a new audio search engine, which indexes over 50 million audio files including songs from download stores, podcasts, speeches and other spoken word content. The index will also feature other audio-related information like music videos, album reviews, artist images and links to artists' websites. The service allows independent publishers to submit content to the index through the open standard Media RSS. Yahoo's own music content will be included, as will audio from Napster, GarageBand.com and RealNetworks' Rhapsody. The Web crawler used by the service to search for songs won't filter out unauthorized copyrighted content; Yahoo director of technology development Bradley Horowitz told the Los Angeles Times the company would rely on record labels to notify them of such tracks for removal. Horowitz added that the index also will not include databases of song lyrics, as most are in violation of copyrights.
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