[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COPCM2eQm5U&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]A music search engine that uses a novel technique to classify songs,will go into beta this week, Erica Naone writes in the November 2 Technology Review blog.

… It was designed by researchers from the University of California, San Diego, including assistant professor Gert Lanckriet. The researchers have trained the search using information contributed by Facebook users, via an application called HerdIt. The goal is to train the system to tag songs automatically–using statistical analysis applied to the waveform patterns that represent each song…