SeeqPod is An Active Music Search & Discovery Tool

SeeqPod is a new music search engine that is dubbed as a "playable search." It's raised a reported several million dollars independently of venter capital funding, though the actual amount has not been disclosed.

With SeeqPod, you can perform a search and it will provide results from across the web, crawling blogs, social networking profiles, and anywhere else on the Internet where a song can be played. You can listen to the songs as you find them on SeeqPod, and add them to a playlist. There is also the option to "discover" related artists based on your current results, more like Pandora than the direct peer recommendation systems other music communities use. A running list of available songs is always scrolling on the homepage, and even as you search and add to your playlist, SeeqPod will continuously add more results to your query. You can email your playlists to friends or embed them in your MySpace, hi5 and Piczo profiles.

In addition, you can watch related videos, find blogs, ring tones, artist profiles, concert tour dates news and more for each artist. While every option may not be available for each artist, the SeeqPod project is a work in progress. That being said, it's also included the option for you to submit music that you've found from across the web (or your own, I suppose), as well as related blogs, similar in concept to Technorati or StumbleUpon. This active bookmarking and web crawl search will only help SeeqPod in its efforts to become a useful search tool with a model that is said to be easily applied to any vertical, according to its creators. I'd love to see more integration of the additional search info with user accounts, perhaps including the ability to save concert dates or particularly helpful URLs to blogs and artist profiles.

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