The search engines of today might be able to do just word and images searches, but how many of them will be able to take a sound sample and retrieve similar tunes? An Australian computer scientist believes that the upcoming search engines in the future will be able to do just that – retrieve music on your behalf whenever you belt out a tune to your computer. She strongly holds on to her views that the next three to four years will see such a search engine appear on anyone who loves music. Currently, there are still a fair number of problems to solve, such as the wide range of music genres available as well as ‘the effect interference from things such as sound quality and environmental noise have on the ability of the program to detect notes.’

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[Via Coolest Gadgets]

Google launched a new code search feature today. At least two sites already offer this functionality, but a great deal of attention follows Google wherever they go.

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[Via Kottke.org]

As Kottke.org informs us the new Google Code Search already unearthed a lot of interesting things, like Wordpress logins, a key generator for Winzip and even something totally unexpected.

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[Via Wait Till I Come!]