Feedster goes Podster

Scott Johnson over at Feedster announced today that they’re doing podcasts now. Yes, your very own Feedster podcast search. From what I can see on a few minutes’ glance, it’s not an episode search engine — you just find podcasts and have the option to play the latest episode. This is a shame for many, because say if you’re looking for a podcast (episode) which talked about eBay’s acquisiting of Skype — you’re not going to get it unless you type into google: "ebay" "skype" "podcast" which I is good, but seriously if podcasting is going to last even a while — it’s not enough.

I think it’s an excellent move by Feedster — we really need a few search engine in the growing podcasting market, but really, iif all I can do with it is find podcasts (which mind you I can do in a hundred places), it’s not worth anything to me. Unless they have the episode search, they don’t have me (as a user).

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  • Hi Scott,
    Thanks for your correspondence and clearing it up. Yes, I think you're right -- because I remember I wrote this post as soon as I saw Podcast search on Feester, possible the day you implemented the initial podcast search.

    I tried it out and I really like it. Great job with Feedster.

    Sid
  • Hi Sid,

    Well depending on when you looked at it, it actually might NOT have been there. We added episode search 3 days after we implemented the initial Podcast search. We had to wait for the weekend's cleanup indexing cycle so episodes got indexed.

    Scott "The Man Who Wrote Podcast Search"
  • Hmm...I swear that wasn't there when I wrote this post, or else I'm sure I would've seen it. In any case, that's awesome, I may actually be switch to using it for my searches.
  • Actually...we do podcast searches by show and episode. Check the pull down menu after the search field.

    Best,

    Alan Graham
    Community Liaison
    Feedster
  • Both http://blinkx.com and http://podscope.com use speech recognition software to do "full text-audio search" of podcast episodes. I also tried Google searching "podcast shownotes 'eBay buying Skype'" and that got some results.
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