3 Popular Music Search Engine
July 19, 2008
I’m checking out 3 popular music search engines (songza, seeqpod, and skreemr). Among the 3, I seem to like songza more.
When using a music search engine, I expect to search either for a specific song, or I enter an artist and expect to see a list of songs by that artist. I don’t want to see wikipedia articles or news about those artists.
I tried doing a search for “Duran Duran”, one of my favorite bands in the 80’s and here’s what songza returned.
Songza returned a list of Duran Duran songs. The nice thing about this is that if I click one of the songs, it’ll play it. Really cool!
The second music search engine I tested was Seeqpod. Here’s what seeqpod returned.
Honestly, I didn’t like what I saw. I has a couple of links to you tube. Does this mean that if I create a video at youtube and I include the word “Duran Duran” in the title my video would be included in this search result page? Hmm…. we might be seeing a new form of spam. … ‘video spam’.
The 3rd music search engine I tested was skreemr. Here’s what it looks like.
This one seems better. One of the results was “The Reflex” which was a very good Duran Duran song. I noticed that the link pointed to this file “http://musicglob.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/duran-duran-the-reflex.mp3?
When I click that link, it’ll play the song.
I guess by creating a music search engine which crawls the net in search for mp3 files uploaded on websites and indexing it, these search engines won’t be liable for copyright infringement since technically, those mp3 files are not hosted on the search engines. They just “found” these files and returns a list of urls where it can be found.
People can then just do a right click and click “save as” and these mp3 files would be downloaded to their hard disks.
Tags: mp3 search engine, music search, music search engines, search engines, seeqpod, skreemr, songza
Web Design, SEO and More…
September 1, 2006
Technology has vastly re-shaped the online world especially when it comes to building and maintaining a website, it seems everyone including my cat can build a workable site nowadays.
However with the ever increasing rate of such sites spawning all over the web it ain’t that easy to ’stand out’ among the crowd, sure your site could just be a hobby for you but what if your hobby turns profitable? surely your not gonna ditch your site, in fact you would be seeking ways to futher enhance your site, i myself am on this road of discovery, the internet works and if you have a site that attracts people than profits is just knocking on the door.
It’s time like this that you (and i) need professional help, the whole works,Design, SEO (Search Engine Optimization), Internet Marketing, etc.
Web Design San Diego is one such site that delievers the goods.
They specialize in website development as a business tool, search engine optimization (SEO), search engine marketing (SEM) and other forms of interactive Internet marketing as core methods of attracting visitors, and conversion improvement as a vehicle to increase ROI from existing and future web traffic.
Tom Cruise strikes a deal with Yahoo!
August 27, 2006
Tom Cruise who ended his 14-year production deal with Paramount Pictures recently has struck an accord with Yahoo!.
Yup, Yahoo! the search engine.
Tom’s future films willl reportedly be backed, funded, endorsed, or whatever you want to call it by Yahoo!.
Domain Names–What To Consider When Choosing One
May 28, 2006
Domain Names–What To Consider When Choosing One
By Ba Kiwanuka
Never register your domain name through your web hosting company however attractive the deal might appear. Why? Well one day you may wish to transfer your domain name to another web hosting provider and your current web host may not take kindly to this. It is not unusual in such cases for the web host to charge a transfer fee and even in extreme cases to unequivocally refuse the transfer of your domain name. If such a situation arises you can report the offending party to the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
Another thing to consider when registering your domain name is not to rely solely on your domain name register to ensure that the domain name you have in mind is available and does not infringe on someone else’s trademark rights (unless you enjoy being sued). To be doubly sure your domain name has no trademark infringement issues, after conducting a search for its availability on your domain name register’s website, you can also check at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) http://www.uspto.gov.
When registering your domain name it’s a good idea to register it for more than one year. The reason being that, other than the usual discounts you get for multi-year registrations from most domain name registers, Google (and perhaps the other search engines) consider multi-year registered domains as less likely to be spam sites. Consequently, right off the bat your site will have a search engine advantage (at least with Google), such as a shorter evaluation period in the Google Sandbox.
A final note about domain name registration; there are plenty of domain name registration companies out there, all eager and equally willing to register your new name. Domain name registration prices range from as little as $10 a year up to $35 per year and beyond. Generally there is little point in opting for the more expensive registers because you more or less get the same service. In fact some of the cheaper domain name registration companies provide better quality service.
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Complaint against Google over PR issue
March 18, 2006
KinderStart.com has filed a civil complaint against Google, claiming Google Inc.’s mysterious methods for ranking Web sites (PageRank), ruined scores of Internet businesses that have been wrongfully banished from its index.
The civil complaint, filed in U.S. District Court in San Jose by KinderStart.com, seeks to be certified as a class action representing the owners of all Web sites blacklisted by Google’s Internet-leading search engine since January 2001.
KinderStart, a Norwalk-based Web site devoted to information about children, says it was dropped from Google’s index a year ago without warning.
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