Manthan

Here is a practical use of audio search. Google Text box is so ubiquitous with search, we tend to ignore audio, video or image search. This article points to a Apple patent for a device that lets you search for likeness to a tune heard on radio or other sources.

It’s an ingenious method of grabbing snippets of audio, identifying the song and allowing the user the option to purchase that song.

Search today is limited to “text input”, but thats really a small percentage of “data out there”. One should be able to search for audio, video or images by inputting them to search engine. The challenge is to get that data to be inputted to the search engine. Here is where mobile phones and iPod come in handy, for capturing video/audio/image inputs to be used by search engines as a reference for search. This is one search market ( when ever it emerges) , which Google will be challenged to cater to.

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