Tagoo

Infobox Website
name = Tagoo Beta

url = [http://www.tagoo.ru/ www.tagoo.ru]

commercial = yes
type = Search Engine
language = Russian, English, German
registration = optional
owner = Tagoo
founder = Sergey Smagin and Ruslan Murashko
launch date = December 25, 2007 [cite web | url=http://keeperweb.com/ru/whois?address=tagoo.ru | title=WHOIS - tagoo.ru | accessdate=2007-08-10]
current status = active
slogan = It's as easy to use as iTunes, minus the credit card.

Tagoo - Russian mp3 search engine, created by Russian company - [http://www.tagoo.ru/ Tagoo] . Designed by Sergey Smagin ("russian"=Сергей Смагин) and his helper Ruslan Murashko ("russian"=Руслан Мурашко).

Features

Tagoo offers English, German and Russian interfaces. It allows you to search mp3 tracks through the Internet for free. Tagoo does not host any of found soundtracks, it only provides user with direct links to mp3 files which are hosted on other servers, not connected with Tagoo.Since March 13, 2008 Tagoo started to promote newly created artists by publishing their tracks on their site. Every user can evaluate artist or even advise something.On April 16 Tagoo launched [cite web|url=http://tagoo.ru/blog/?p=6&language=en |title=Launching of Tagoo Self Search|publisher=Tagoo |accessdate=2008-04-16] Tagoo Self Search (TSS). Tagoo Self Search is a partner's search system that allows anybody to install mp3 search engine, povered by Tagoo, on his/her site/blog/forum.On April 21 Tagoo launched new feature, which offers users to create their own playlists on Tagoo site. On May 22 Tagoo created [cite web|url=http://tagoo.ru/blog/?p=15&language=en |title=Creation of TagooMoody |publisher=Tagoo |accessdate=2008-05-22] its own widget - TagooMoody. It is flash player that plays songs from Tagoo's “what is your mood today?” module. Any user ia able to listen to music according to his/her mood by means of TagooMoody and istall it on his/her site/blog/forum.

Advantages of Tagoo

As Sergey Smagin claims in his [http://telnews.ru/event/16369 interview] ("in Russian") there are a number of advantages of using Tagoo. They are:

* Very fast search process. Only by two mouse clicks user can easily find required soundtrack.
* User can face less advertisements on Tagoo site.
* Tagoo can find not only soundtracks but audiobooks, podcasts and so on.
* Analysis of previous user's searches. So if user did not find required track administrators will try to find it for user.
* Constant up date of links data base.

Users

According to [http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/tagoo.ru Alexa] 50.7% of Tagoo users come from Russia, 12.5% from Ukraine, 5.5% from the United States,4.7% from Kazakhstan and 4.2% from Germany

References

External links

* [http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/02/tagoo-emerging.html Tagoo Emerging as the Russian Napster?]
* [http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080217-tagoo-youre-it-new-mp3-search-engine-unfazed-by-ifpi.html Tagoo, you're it! New MP3 search engine unfazed by IFPI]
* [http://telnews.ru/event/16369 Сергей Смагин, Tagoo: "Я заинтересован в том, чтобы пиратские порталы были закрыты"]
* [http://tyomma.ru/tagoo/ Tagoo, интервью с разработчиками]

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