Over on David Kaye’s (the “ITConversations”:2 guy) “Blogarithms”:1, David recently “wrote”:5 about “Podscope”:3. Podscope is a search engine that allows you to textually search the audio content of podcasts.

For example, if you search on the term “_China_”:4, Podscope will search the podcasts that it has indexed for mentions of the word _China_. It also creates an audio snippet that contains the word you are searching on. You can play the snippet directly from the browser. The snippet is also labeled with the time the mention occurred during the podcast.

Although the service is a little rough (hey, it’s in beta) and not perfect, it’s far better than nothing.

[5(Davids post on Podscope)]http://www.rds.com/blogs/doug/index.php/archives/2005/04/20/podscope-is-cool/

[4(A Podscope search on "China")]http://www.podscope.com/search.php?q=China

[3(Podscope a Podcasting search engine)]http://www.podscope.com

[2(ITConversations... home of cool, tech audio content)]http://www.itconversations.com

[1(David Kayes blog)]http://www.rds.com/blogs/doug/index.php