Noisely: The Simple Search Tool for Podcasts
Amit Chowdhry | Friday November 3, 2006 | 246 Views |Categorized under , Noisely

“We’ve got a fun podcast today that will probably be put up in multiple places. My name is Mike Arrington. I write the blog, TechCrunch and this will go up on the TalkCrunch podcast site as well. Well, Malik is on the phone, who most recently stopped his day job at Business 2.0 and became a full-time blogger at GigaOm” stated Mike Arrington on the Episode 12 podcast that I found by simply typing “TalkCrunch” in the new podcast search engine, Noisely. Podcasts that are searched for and discovered within Noisely can be played right off of the website. “Just enter some words describing what you would like to listen and Noisely will reproduce many hours of continuos podcasts sequencially” states the FAQ page of Noisely.
How are podcasts found from Noisely? Simple. It harvests data from YouLoud, another podcast search that has an embedded player. So what is the difference between YouLoud and Noisely? Let’s just say that Noisely is like the Google of podcast searches since it doesn’t have all the extra crap on the homepage; it just has the search results and the play/fast-forward/rewind button of the podcasts.
The funny thing about this company is that it literally states in the FAQ, “Does anybody really needs something like noisely? Hmmm, may be not, or may be yes.” Why, Noisely, why? Is this any way to sell yourself? Here I am calling you the Google of podcast searches and here you go and say may be you don’t need us.
In any case, here is a sample screenshot of what you will find if you search for “YouTube” as suggested:

NPR, which is famous for its large-sized assortment of podcasts, has dominated the top results of Noisely for the “YouTube” search. NPR podcasts for YouTube include the coverage of the acquisition as well as mentioning the top mainstream videos on YouTube that has fueled YouTube growth. These videos mentioned on NPR include the lonelygirl15 videos, the Evolution of Dance videos, the old man complaining about life in general videos, the public bashing of Tucker Carlson by Jon Stewart video, and the public bashing of George W. Bush by Stephen Colbert video.
There isn’t any background information about who created the Noisely, the podcast search engine, but I’m sure some people could definetely use it as a nice timepass. The podcast market is obviously huge and this just reinforces that notion. This is why Noisely should be convincing us that their podcast search is the best thing since sliced bread instead of saying “may be not, or may be yes.”
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