Podscope FAQ | Podscope | 4.17.05
What is Podscope?
Podscope is the first search engine that actually allows you to search for spoken words within any audio or video file. We’re starting with podcasts and will be adding all types of multimedia in coming months.
How does it work?
Just like any other search engine. You enter a word or phrase in the input box, and we’ll show you a list of results. By clicking on the (+) sign next to each result, you can select snippets of audio to help you decide whether to listen to the whole podcast or even subscribe. If you know about Search Inside the BookTM, that’s what we do for audio/video.
Podscope blog.
This is going to be the next very big “thing” — the indexing of spoken content. Can you imagine what spoken content search engines will do? We’ve seen the fundamental changes the WWW has wrought for textual content. SEO will be segmented into meta tags SEO/T and SEO/S. A role for the folksonomies (and other social bookmarkings): del.icio.us, Technorati, etc.? I would love to have all our hospital dictations searchable by a podscope-equivalent process …
