Podscope was the first consumer

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to create a 'spoken word index' for

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. Originally launched in April 2005, it creates an index against every spoken word within the audio/video content. Users can search for a term or

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and then go right to the portion of the podcast that contains the search term. User searches generate a list of ranked results, providing the most relevant podcasts as well as links to play or download the content. Podscope was created by TVEyes Inc.

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The ''Podscope'' Search Engine

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