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Qloud Launches Beta Test of Tagging-Based Music Search Service

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on October 11, 2006 - 1:20pm.
Washington - Washington-based start-up Qloud (pronounced "cloud") on Wednesday announced the launch of a public beta test of its "people-powered music search service" and plug-in for Apple's iTunes music player. The search service is powered by tags generated by users on individual songs in their iTunes music libraries. Tags can be provided by music preference, demographics, and category -- such as "workout," allowing users to search, for example, for the songs most tagged "workout" and "hip-hop" by women in New York aged 20-30. "Qloud will do for music discovery what Google(TM) has done for web discovery," said Qloud co-founder Toby Murdock.
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Soundflavor Debuts Music Search and Recommendation Technologies

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on October 4, 2006 - 12:34pm.
Los Angeles - Soundflavor, a developer of digital music search and recommendation technologies, introduced on Wednesday a free companion application for Apple's iTunes that makes recommendations from a user's own music library -- and from outside music stores -- when they play a song or playlist. The company, which announced the news from Digital Media Wire's Digital Music Forum event in Los Angeles, cited a survey it commissioned by Insight Express that found nearly two-thirds of digital music listeners feel they have a lot of great music that they forget to play.
tags: Tech | Music | Search | Software | Music Search | Recommendations | DMFW | Soundflavor |

Google Launches Music Search Feature

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on December 15, 2005 - 9:42am.
Mountain View, Calif. - Google on Thursday introduced a new music search feature, which aims to provide more relevant results when users are searching for music-related information. Users enter names of bands, artists, albums or songs on Google Music, and receive music-related results at the top of the page. The results will include album cover art, reviews and links to retailers including iTunes, Amazon.com and eMusic. The company said the service currently skews toward popular U.S. artists, but will be expanded to encompass classical and lesser-known artists worldwide. "This has been one of the longstanding unfilled user needs," Marissa Mayer, Google's vice president of search products and user experience, told News.com. "We saw a search need where we weren't providing users with the highest-quality results that we could." Mayer added that Google isn't planning to launch its own digital music store.
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Google Launches Music Search Feature

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on December 15, 2005 - 9:39am.
Mountain View, Calif. - Google on Thursday introduced a new music search feature, which aims to provide more relevant results when users are searching for music-related information. Users enter names of bands, artists, albums or songs on Google Music, and receive music-related results at the top of the page. The results will include album cover art, reviews and links to retailers including iTunes, Amazon.com and eMusic. The company said the service currently skews toward popular U.S. artists, but will be expanded to encompass classical and lesser-known artists worldwide. "This has been one of the longstanding unfilled user needs," Marissa Mayer, Google's vice president of search products and user experience, told News.com. "We saw a search need where we weren't providing users with the highest-quality results that we could." Mayer added that Google isn't planning to launch its own digital music store.
tags: Music | Google | Music Search |