Gimado Gets $300k for Music Search

Gimado is announcing its seed funding, from an undisclosed investor. The funding amount is $300,000, and comes just weeks after the site was first launched, just after Warner brought a lawsuit against Seeqpod, which offers a similar service. A few other music search engines, like Songerize, have launched since. Gimado will also be layering in a recommendation system called “Smart Play” which will let users save songs, and find related music. (Mashable)

Major Label Fights Google-ization of Music With SeeqPod Lawsuit

In the world of online music, you're nobody until somebody sues you. Like so many music startups before it, the innovative MP3 search site SeeqPod finds itself staring down the wrong end of a major-label lawsuit from Warner Music. The site lets users search a massive catalog of music gathered from servers all over the world, and play the results right there on the page -- thus its motto, "playable search." SeeqPod doesn't let you download songs, but does let you save them into playlists to share with friends or access from connected computers and devices such as the iPhone. (Wired)

Warner Music Suing MP3 Search Engine Seeqpod

Warner Music Group (WMG) is suing Seeqpod, the most popular of a new breed of music search engine/players with a new twist on the original Napster strategy -- rather than let users download copies of other people's MP3s, it lets them listen to streaming MP3s hosted on other people's websites. The last numbers we saw pegged the engine's catalog at 8 million songs, and it's got a slick interface, quick response time, etc. Whether it's legal is a different matter. (Silicon Alley Insider)

SeeqPod IPhone Button Allows Instant Access to Free Music

We've been following SeeqPod for a while as the company has honed its music search engine, which lets you play the internet's hidden music on your computer, IPhone, or iPod Touch. After installing the latest firmware (in iTunes), you can add an SeeqPod icon to your iPhone or iPod Touch menu that offers direct access to the service. Once you search for or browse to a song (enter a band you like in the Discover menu to find new stuff), songs load as Quicktime movies on the iPhone. (Wired Blog)