Google whistles a new tune

[Jared Moya]

Google Music will allow a user to type in the name of a band, artist, album or song in the main Google search bar special, and results will appear at the top, accompanied by icons of music notes, said Marissa Mayer, vice president of search products and user experience at Google.


 Items that can be purchased will have links to merchants for online ordering or downloading, she said. Initial merchant partners include Apple Computer's iTunes service, RealNetworks Rhapsody, eMusic, Amazon.com.


  "We aren't building out a music store," Mayer said. "We are getting people to the iTunes store" and others.

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[crackerjacker]

well this is what i do
super tag feature by music match plus * i have it*
tag my mp3s and wala get the downloaded art pictures automatically as well
*cough * its free ;)
serious

[moneoa]

Bittorrent will allow a user to type in the name of a band, artist, album or song in the various BT search bars and results will appear at the top, accompanied by icons of music notes, said I, vice president of search products and piracy.


Items that can be ganked will have links to torrents for online downloading, I said. Initial competitors include Apple Computer's iTunes service, RealNetworks Rhapsodody

[Krell]

Google to Launch Music Content Feature

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Online search engine leader Google Inc. will begin giving some musical artists the star treatment by spotlighting links to their songs, lyrics and other related material at the top of the results page.

The music section, scheduled to debut Thursday, is designed to provide a more direct route to the content that most music fans want to see when they inquire about a singer or band, said Marissa Mayer, Google's director of Web products. "We are addressing a deficiency in our Web search," she said.
The music section is similar in concept and placement to other special sections Google has created to make it easier to find information about airline flights, express freight shipments, news stories, movies and weather.

Among other things, Google's music section will provide lists of all the songs recorded on a specific album and also will point to places where the music can be legally downloaded. Google is working with several online libraries to make sure its song list remains up to date.

Unlike Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - news), Mountain View, Calif.-based Google has no plans to create a music library of its own, Mayer said. Google also won't collect a referral fee if its visitors click on the new music section and go on to buy songs from one of the linked libraries.

But Google does stand to profit if the new section spurs more search requests about music because that gives its search engine more opportunities to display ads about the same subject. The advertising displayed alongside Google's main search results accounted for a substantial chunk of the company's $4.2 billion in revenue through the first nine months of 2005.


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[crackerjacker]

eh google is going to be working with artists who will make the music available for download to free and it would be a legal service. google wont be screwing with copy rights it seems.

hmm there is a service out there iuma that allows users to download music or stream it for free.
hmm