Yahoo! to test audio search

More evidence of podcasting going mainstream.

Yahoo! is set to begin testing a new search engine feature that will go through millions of songs offered by popular internet music services like iTunes, Rhapsody and Napster.

The free service, available at audio.search.yahoo.com, boasts an index of more than 50 million audio files, including newscasts, speeches and interviews posted online, as well as the internet's deepening pool of 'podcasts' - recordings made to be played on a computer or digital device like Apple Computer's iPod player. The index identifies the content by reading information - known as 'metadata' - embedded in the files.

Link: Yahoo! to test audio search - Breaking - Technology - smh.com.au