TVEyes Searching For Podcast Information

Broadcast search provider TVEyes has announced Podscope, which will search for words within audio, specifically podcasts. Yup folks, we got a search engine for finding words spoken within a podcast. Whee! It's in beta and is available at http://www.podscope.com/ . (A lightly-populated blog about the project is available at http://www.podscope.com/blog/ .)

The query box is actually inside someone's head. Um. Okay. I did a search for Apple. A couple of minutes and several ActiveX alerts from my firewall later, I had a list of search results, mostly from MacCast. (No result count, though. Grr.)

Each result has a + next on it. Click on that and it'll expand to a list of time points at which your word of interest was spoken, with play and stop buttons. (This didn't work in Opera, worked fine in Firefox.) To the far right of the search results there are also links to the site, to play the entire podcast, to the XML feed, and to the specific article related to the podcast.

I can see this as a really nifty discovery tool for finding podcasts on my topic of interest. One suggestion, though: how about an RSS feed of the search results? I'd love to be able to refer back to Podscope and discover which podcasts are talking about what I like on a regular basis.

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