Report: How The Internet Has Changed Music Consumption

Jun 16, 2009 at 3:45pm ET by Chris Sherman

Music file sharing services have always been a mutant species of search, offering different tools and methods for finding and listening to tunes. Napster was one of the first and most infamous, and its widespread adoption caused the recording industry to panic, suing both the company and thousands of its users. That hasn't stopped the practice of sharing music—in fact, there are dozens if not hundreds of ways to find and listen to music online today, both legal and otherwise. In a new report, The State of Music Online: Ten Years After Napster, the Pew Internet Project traces the evolu [...]

Filed in: Legal: Copyright, Search & Society, Search Engines: Audio Search Engines

Searchme Launches Multimedia Visual Search

Apr 30, 2009 at 3:59pm ET by Chris Sherman

Searchme has rolled out what it calls "true" blended search results, combining web, video, images, music and Twitter results organized by their relevance and playable inside the search results page. Searchme displays results as small versions of entire web pages, in a format that looks just like the "cover flow" display in iTunes. I love Searchme as a "recall engine," using it to find web pages or sites that I've previously visited but can't remember the site name or URL. The visual display of results, with the ability to quickly scroll through mini-versions of pages makes it easy to reco [...]

Filed in: Search Engines: Audio Search Engines, Search Engines: Other Search Engines, Search Engines: Photo & Image Search, Search Engines: Shopping Search Engines, Search Engines: Video Search Engines, Twitter

5 (More) Search Tools You May Not Know … But Should

Dec 29, 2008 at 1:28pm ET by Matt McGee

How would you like to track hot news geographically? Or see where social conversations are happening on a map? Maybe you'd like to find businesses that are open 24 hours a day, or research keywords on a state-by-state basis. If so, read on for a look at five search tools you may not know about, but should. About two months ago, we published 7 Search Tools You May Not Know ... But Should. That became a popular article and let us know that we should continue uncovering largely unknown search tools in future articles. So, here's the second in an irregular series of posts about search tools you [...]

Filed in: SEM Tools, Search Engines: Audio Search Engines, Search Engines: Maps & Local Search Engines, Search Engines: News Search Engines, Search Engines: Other Search Engines, Search Engines: Social Search Engines, Top News

Google China Launches Music Search

Aug 6, 2008 at 9:06am ET by Barry Schwartz

Music 2.0 has shared detailed screen captures and commentary on the launch of Google China Music Search. I personally cannot get to this site ("Sorry, Google is not your region provide you with the services they need" message appears"), but Music 2.0 does have screen captures and calls this Google service "more impressive" then many of the international counterparts. Google China Music Search ranks music on the home page by some form of popularity metric. You can clearly search by artist name and other criteria. You can even download the DRM-free music in mp3 format at a rate of 192kbps. [...]

Filed in: Google: Music, Google: Outside US, Search Engines: Audio Search Engines, Search Engines: Baidu, Search Engines: China Search Engines

You Hum It, These Search Engines Claim They’ll Find It

Feb 13, 2007 at 6:43am ET by Phil Bradley

Recently a couple of search engines have come to my attention that are designed to allow you to hum a few bars of a tune into them, and then they'll tell you what the song is. These are Midomi and Humming Search from Nayio. That's the promise; the reality was disappointing. The concept is straightfoward; you allow the search engine(s) access to your microphone (either by dialogue box with Midomi or downloading a piece of software with Humming Search), and then you hum your tune. With Midomi you can hum for as long as you like, with Humming Search it's a 15 second count down. The search engin [...]

Filed in: Search Engines: Audio Search Engines

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