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The idea of a dedicated music player was born from Yahoo! audio search engine, which was divided into two segments: audio files openly found on the Web; and licensed music from Yahoo! own music service that can be searched by several criteria (e.g., artist, title, album, etc.) and downloaded for a price, typically $1 per track.
In June 2001, after the bursting of the dot-com bubble, Yahoo! acquired LAUNCH Media, which was facing financial difficulty, for $12 million. [1] [2] [3] In addition to a website with music news and videos, it provided an Internet radio service that allowed users to create personalized Internet radio stations by rating songs selected by a recommender system.
Yahoo! Music Jukebox was the software used for the service. The service required an active Internet connection. It was discontinued on September 30, 2008. [6] [7] The service was praised for its music quality, interface, and cheaper price than competitors. [8] [9]
Their PlayAudioVideo multimedia search engine, created in July 2007, was the first true search engine for multimedia, providing search on the web for images, video and audio in the same search engine, and allowing users to preview them on the same page. [citation needed] Munax has since shut down. [citation needed]
In 1995, they introduced a search engine function, called Yahoo! Search, that allowed users to search Yahoo! Directory. [5] [6] it was the first popular search engine on the Web, [7] despite not being a true Web crawler search engine. They later licensed Web search engines from other companies. Seeking to provide its own Web search engine ...
Napster started as an audio search engine named Aladdin that was purchased by Listen.com in May 2001 and became the basis for its new streaming service, called Rhapsody, that launched in December of the same year.
It provides a web portal, search engine Yahoo Search, and related services, including My Yahoo, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Sports and its advertising platform, Yahoo Native. Yahoo was established by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was one of the pioneers of the early Internet era in the 1990s. [6]
Dogpile is a metasearch engine for information on the World Wide Web that fetches results from Google, Yahoo!, Yandex, Bing, [2] [3] and other popular search engines, including those from audio and video content providers such as Yahoo!.