Google whistles a new tune

Google is 8 years late with music search: Eight years ago Nick Whyte and our team at AltaVista invented multi-media search. We were the first with Image (picture) Search, Video Search, and Music Search. Seven years ago I joined the team at Napster where we invented P2P music search and file sharing. Pioneers sometimes win fame, but rarely earn fortunes. In this case, the not so fast "fast follower" Google will probably make the fortune.

All that multi-media search technology we developed at AltaVista is now the property of Yahoo. Yahoo acquired AltaVista several years ago and many of the brilliant AV engineers are still there. In fact, the Image, Video, and Music search technology is still working on the Yahoo site today.

Incidentally, Nick Whyte now works with the MSN Search group at Microsoft. MSN Search already has Image Search and could add Music Search at anytime. Gee, could Video Search be next?

I wrote a blog on this subject this morning. You can read the full story at
http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2005/12/oogle_music_sea.html; Posted by: DonDodge Posted on: 12/15/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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