There is little buzz going on about singingfish.com redirecting to AOL Search. If you are unfamiliar with singingfish, it is a multimedia search engine launched in 2000 that has one of the best databases of many mp3s and other audio and video formats. The only info I found about the domain redirection was that AOL has laid off all singingfish employees (AOL in fact bought out singingfish in 2003) and it will no longer be supported, if not completely vanish from the internet. Something I stumbled on while seeing if there was a workaround for the redirect, I realized that the search page is still hosted beyond the main directory of the domain at http://singingfish.com/sfw/home.jsp and I have no clue how long it will stay up, but you can still access the search results as of now.
Update: As of February 14, all links are redirecting, which means there is no way to search singingfish. There are other mp3 search engines, but none quite as good as this one was- not to mention how horrible AOL’s regular audio search is. Come back to this site soon for a list of new mp3 search engines.
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Ten Best Places to Search Free Music- liquid parallax's Blog says:
Apr 12, 2007
[…] wrote earlier about the death of Singingfish media search, an amazing resource of online music. Since then I’ve been seeking alternatives […]
Kat Marco says:
Nov 11, 2007
Hey just thought I would write and tell you that I appreciate what you do! All my life I have loved music, it has meant more to me than just about anything. Interestingly I would add that my website has more hits coming from singingfish.com that any and that it has been very steady for the past year. I find this to be suprising concidering the end of this great search engine. I have often wondered why. What do you think? ~ Rock Forever ~ Kat Marco
liquid parallax says:
Nov 11, 2007
My statistical log files have also shown that I’ve gotten clicks from singingfish after the shutdown, although when visiting manually it redirects to AOL video. My theory is that it is still being hosted (Singingfish.com is still hosted and functional) but it cannot be accessed directly due to the redirect. It’s possible that AOL points some of its audio search to singingfish. Old singingfish results can still be found (though in a crippled, less functional way) using AOL audio search. The referrer that shows hits from singingfish might just be AOL using singingfish results because it grants access to it instead of a redirect.