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One of the concepts we cover in our TechnoVision point of view is Googlification: thanks to powerful search technologies, we do not really have to structure our information any more. We just pile it up and search whenever we need something. It is often how people find their way on the Web and it is the preferred strategy for handling mail by Gmail users. Now Google Labs are taking things just a tiny, little bit further with their audio Indexing tools. For now, they have restricted themselves to indexing election-related speeches on YouTube (you may have seen the Google elections Search gadget already), but one can only imagine what the possibilities are once they increase the scope of the search engine. We would love to hear your suggestions for ‘killer’ audio-search applications and we are just starting to think about what this would mean to placed ads.
In the meantime, do have a look at the differences between the two US presidential candidates. You are probably not surprised who talks the most about ‘change’, but a bit more insightful are the search hits for ‘information technology’. There is still some work to do, apparently. And it is piling up in both camps.
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I am surprised why Google does not have a audio search when Yahoo already has one
Then you have SkreemR http://skreemr.com/ with Audio Ranking.
There are 2 search engines that I think has great promise one is CUIL ( I like the way the search result is presented)
http://www.cuil.com
The other one is an Image Search Engine (using Image identification) in its Beta
Tineye
http://tineye.com.
My suggestion for a killer Audio search will be based on an audio search using audio identification technique. So let us say if I give an ABBA MP3 file then search engine should identify and analyze the audio file and give similar kind of music recommendations.
Regards
Gopal Padinjaruveetil
@Gopal: and thanks for your suggestions. I do think that the type of ‘audio search’ that we see in Google’s ‘Gaudi’ is quite unique as it obviously does not focus on finding audio files, but rather on finding keywords in spoken text, based on natural language interpretation. By the way, sites such as Last.fm and the ‘Genius’ function in the new iTunes nowadays provide excellent music recommendations, based on adaptive filtering.
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