fizy is an internationally available online music search engine based in Turkey

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

. Containing both audio and video, fizy fetches files from other websites and immediately starts to stream

Streaming media

Streaming media is multimedia that is constantly received by and presented to an end-user while being delivered by a streaming provider.The term "presented" is used in this article in a general sense that includes audio or video playback. The name refers to the delivery method of the medium rather...

 them. Access to the website was banned in Turkey on 28 December 2010, due to alleged copyright violations. The site was sold and access was subsequently restored.

fizy has about 600,000 daily visitors. It was designated by Mashable Awards as the best music search engine.

History

28-year-old Ercan Yarış and his friends were frustrated by the difficulty of using music search engines, so the three entrepreneurs designed their own. fizy was created on 22 December 2008. Yarış posted the site on Digg

Digg

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, where one of his friends sent the site to a marketing specialist, who spread it through Twitter

Twitter

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 to 3,000 friends. fizy gradually grew popular.

In 2010, the Turkish Phonographic Industry Society, or MÜ-YAP, asked the prosecutor's office in Beyoğlu

Beyoglu

Beyoğlu is a district located on the European side of İstanbul, Turkey, separated from the old city by the Golden Horn...

 to block fizy, alleging that fizy relayed MÜ-YAP clips without payment. On 17 December, the prosecutor ruled to block fizy in Turkey.

fizy was bought by Turkcell

Turkcell

Turkcell is the leading mobile phone operator of Turkey, based in Istanbul. The company has 34.1 million subscribers as of June 30th, 2011.- Company background :...

on 1 April 2011. Subsequently access to the site in Turkey was restored.

Capabilities

Media can be filtered by quality, format (audio or video), and duration. The playlist feature allows registered users to listen to songs in a desired order and skip from one song to another automatically. fizy supports 26 languages.