"Audio search technology developed at Yahoo! Bangalore is the most sophisticated vertical search product to-date. It incorporates large scale feeds, sophisticated matching heuristics, accurate extraction of multi-media content from web crawls, and predictive relevance and ranking to accommodate a variety of parameters including popularity, keywords and download locations," said Dr Prasad Ram, Chief Technology Officer, Yahoo! R and D, India.
"Applying this technology to address a growing market need to find, share, and access podcasts with the development of Yahoo! Podcasts from our Bangalore center brings new market innovations from India for the global market," he added.
