Podscope was the first consumer
search engine
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to create a 'spoken word index' for
podcasts. 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
phrase
In syntax and grammar, a phrase is a group of words or singular word acting as a grammatical unit. For instance, the English expression "the very happy squirrel" is a noun phrase which contains the adjective phrase "very happy". Phrases can consi ...
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.
External links
The ''Podscope'' Search EngineTVEyes
Internet search engines
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