Radioplayer's Meaning-Based Search Box Goes Live

CAMBRIDGE, England and SAN FRANCISCO, May 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Autonomy Corporation plc, a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise, today announced that Radioplayer, the online console offering hundreds of UK radio stations in one place, is using Autonomy's meaning-based search innovation. Radioplayer selected Autonomy's cornerstone product, IDOL to process the live metadata of over 200 radio stations in the cloud, giving listeners a revolutionary, cross-industry, conceptual search function.

Ground-breaking partnership between the BBC

In a ground-breaking partnership between the BBC and commercial radio, Radioplayer represents a pan-industry world-first by bringing radio at the same time online in one place. Radioplayer users can now take advantage of a search facility that spans across hundreds of radio stations, united in recognizing Autonomy as the best-of-bred innovation partner for internet radio in the UK. Autonomy's IDOL understands the very concepts of search terms and indexed material, in order to deliver the most relevant results, whether the user is looking for a station, programme, location, presenter or topic. On-demand programmes, 'listen again' and commercial podcasts are as well searchable.

"We are delighted to see Radioplayer up and running so quickly, applying meaning-based research to radio in order to deliver a quality experience to listeners across the country," commented Ian Black, Head of Global Operations, Autonomy. "This is a great example of Autonomy's market-leading audio processing in the cloud, enabling an industry-first search function that will help boost radio in the UK, as listeners are provided with an effortless and enjoyable way to tune in online."

Radioplayer uses IDOL to support around 4 million users per week, putting listeners in control through an easy-to-use console. Through Autonomy, listeners use Radioplayer to search and enjoy radio content from all BBC national and local stations and commercial radio, including Global's Capital and Heart networks, GMG's Smooth Radio and Absolute Radio, as then as stations owned by Bauer Media and UTV Media.

Autonomy Corporation plc, a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise, spearheads the Meaning Based Computing movement. IDC recently recognized Autonomy as having the largest market share and fastest growth in the worldwide search and discovery market. Autonomy's innovation allows computers to harness the full richness of human information, forming a conceptual and contextual understanding of any piece of electronic data, including unstructured information, just as text, email, web pages, voice, or video. Autonomy's software powers the full spectrum of mission-critical enterprise applications including pan-enterprise search, customer interaction solutions, information governance, end-to-end eDiscovery, records management, archiving, business process management, web content management, web optimization, rich media management and video and audio analysis.

Autonomy's customer base is comprised of more than 20,000 global companies, law firms and federal agencies including: AOL, BAE Systems, BBC, Bloomberg, Boeing, Citigroup, Coca Cola, Daimler AG, Deutsche Bank, DLA Piper, Ericsson, FedEx, Ford, GlaxoSmithKline, Lloyds TSB, NASA, Nestlé, the New York Stock Exchange, Reuters, Shell, Tesco, T-Mobile, the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. More than 400 companies OEM Autonomy innovation, including Symantec, Citrix, HP, Novell, Oracle, Sybase and TIBCO. The company has offices worldwide. Please visit www.autonomy.com to find out more.