Comments on: Blinkx thinks new podcast search is better than the big guys http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050630/2097/ Technology, music, video, art, news, reviews and muse on the web Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:43:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Sproose tries to mix man and machine for better search results » Make You Go Hmm http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050630/2097/#comment-642408 Sproose tries to mix man and machine for better search results » Make You Go Hmm Thu, 11 Oct 2007 01:15:54 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050630/2097/#comment-642408 [...] offers a video search powered by Blinkx which I found a search for Hmmcast, a specific query, revealed only two results. Considering the [...] […] offers a video search powered by Blinkx which I found a search for Hmmcast, a specific query, revealed only two results. Considering the […]

]]> By: TDavid http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050630/2097/#comment-13283 TDavid Thu, 04 Aug 2005 23:34:35 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050630/2097/#comment-13283 Yes, I speak my name in EVERY podcast, Ken, and podscope <i>still</i> doesn't list any of Webmaster Cookbook's 30+ podcast content according to several searches I just conducted. Can you find any of them? That's pretty lousy, don't you think, considering my son and I were among the first 50 or so podcasters? Most hosts do mention their names in every podcast, so the podscope speech engine should pick that up somewhere. My above and former comments regarding podscope.com remain unchanged. I even submitted webmastercookbook.com to podscope when it was in beta and it still didn't get into that database. Weak. If you want to find more of my commentary on podscope, just look at my original post prior to this one: http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050411/1704/ Yes, I speak my name in EVERY podcast, Ken, and podscope still doesn’t list any of Webmaster Cookbook’s 30+ podcast content according to several searches I just conducted. Can you find any of them? That’s pretty lousy, don’t you think, considering my son and I were among the first 50 or so podcasters?

Most hosts do mention their names in every podcast, so the podscope speech engine should pick that up somewhere. My above and former comments regarding podscope.com remain unchanged. I even submitted webmastercookbook.com to podscope when it was in beta and it still didn’t get into that database. Weak.

If you want to find more of my commentary on podscope, just look at my original post prior to this one: http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050411/1704/

]]> By: Ken Lempit http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050630/2097/#comment-13282 Ken Lempit Thu, 04 Aug 2005 23:24:56 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050630/2097/#comment-13282 Podscope search utlizes speech recognition based spoken word indexing for the content of podcasts, so it isn't as useful as a metadata search for vanity searches (your name, etc.) unless you speak your name within your podcasts. But if you're seeking content within podcasts, it is very useful indeed. Most other audio/video search engines (including today's announcement from Yahoo) are metadata only and are therefore limited in providing insight into the actual content of podcasts. Podscope search utlizes speech recognition based spoken word indexing for the content of podcasts, so it isn’t as useful as a metadata search for vanity searches (your name, etc.) unless you speak your name within your podcasts. But if you’re seeking content within podcasts, it is very useful indeed. Most other audio/video search engines (including today’s announcement from Yahoo) are metadata only and are therefore limited in providing insight into the actual content of podcasts.

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