Alex Bellinger, from Tunbridge Wells, Kent, United Kingdom, and author of SmallBizBlog and SmallBizPod blog tips us off to the launch of Podscope from TVEyes.

TVEyes, located in Fairfield, CT, offers real-time broadcast search.

Podscope is the creation of:

TVEyes, which has been indexing television and radio broadcasts since 1999, crawls the web with Podscope looking for podcasts and creates an index against every word, thereby making the contents searchable. The user can search on a term, generate a list of results ranked by a variety of methods to find the most relevant podcast and click to play or click to download.

“With a looming explosion in such user generated rich content as Podcasts and video blogs, there is a growing need to empower consumers to find and subscribe to programs that meet their diverse interests,” commented Allen Weiner, Vice President and Research Director at Gartner. “Searching and indexing these varied audio and video programs will not only benefit content-hungry consumers, it also adds legitimacy and velocity to this burgeoning space.” (Source)

I tried some searches of Podscope. Mixed results. Seems that either they need to increase their scope of files they catalog, or there just aren’t that many out there. Time will tell. Still, the chance to search ‘within’ podcasts for keywords is remarkable. If they can further develop this, it has wonderful possibilities for the future. Check it out for yourself at Podscope.

Shel Holtz offers a deeper look at the new service. He raises a few good questions, too. “There’s no word on whether the searches will produce time codes for finding content within a podcast or whether the service will be free.”