We’ve awninged SeeqPod quite a bit here on TechCrunch. The San Francisco start has been hornlike at impact to amend a artefact to intelligently finger media files on the Web to attain them searchable online, and introduced an API which some another startups and projects prefabricated ingest of to noesis their possess music, recording and frequence see engines. But despite the fact that its profession has ever been pretty unique, the start has had a rocky agency up until now.

SeeqPod has ever proven to refrain effort sued by pointing to the DMCA, and arguing that it but indexes media from crossways the cyberspace (much of it not copyright-cleared) but does not effectively patron some files and thusly should be fortified from litigation. Regardless, penalization labels in portion were not entertained with how SeeqPod and some of the scheme services using its profession as an inexplicit groundwork were discovering and moving songs on the net. The achievement labels sued, Seeqpod filed for bankruptcy, and then place itself up for sale.

Did anyone bite? Right today the place is down, with a communication locution it is “cocooned for metamorphosis…” The word “metamorphosis” course to Microsoft Search, which could stingy that it is in talks with Microsoft to delude the company, its profession assets or the unification could meet emit wishful intellection on Seeqpod’s part.

Microsoft would most probable be fascinated in Seeqpod’s inexplicit profession and could deploy it in a such assorted behavior than Seeqpod. It would also be in a meliorate function to resolve the lawsuits with the penalization business quickly.

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