A system and method is provided for enhancing retrieval of advertising
content transmitted by radio and television broadcasters, includes a
broadcast receiver to receive radio and television broadcasts from a
plurality of distinct broadcasters, and to generate audio output
corresponding thereto. A voice recognition module electronically captures
and transcribes audio portions of the broadcasts, and a parsing module
electronically parses the transcribed portions of the broadcasts to
identify advertising content for various products and services embedded
within the broadcasts, and to generate content descriptors. A content
descriptor module captures the content descriptors generated by the
parsing module and populates a database with the content descriptors. A
website server hosts a website which enables a user to search the
database by logging onto the site and inputting at least one of the
content descriptors. A search response is generated which includes
hyperlinks to URLs associated with the advertising content.