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Google to Include iTunes?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the how-would-that-work-exactly dept.

Baher Al Hakim writes "The Street suggests in a recent article that Apple is about to announce a deal with Google to offer Apple's iTunes Music service through Google's site. The rumored deal would pair the nation's leading online music store with its leading search engine." Update: 08/13 22:00 GMT by T : Truncation untruncated.

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  1. Submit button on the loose. by espenfjo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Reports from all over the street says that the well known submitt button is on the loose.

  2. first by way2trivial · · Score: 5, Funny

    po

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  3. Apparently... by c0l0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    NO CARRIER

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  4. Making up for Dupes. by reality-bytes · · Score: 5, Funny
    In an attempt to make up for the dupes, Slashdot are now providing half and article at a time.

    Baher Al Hakim writes "The Street suggests in a recent article that Apple is about to announce a deal with Google, to a ,


    No doubt it will be edited but it was amusing while it lasted. ;)
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  5. Apple! by Luigi30 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Did Apple file a lawsuit mid-submission or something?

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  6. CmdrTaco by michelcultivo · · Score: 5, Funny

    "What the hell I'm doing here."

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  7. Complete blurb by JemVai777 · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.technoogle.com/?p=114

    Wall Street suggests in a recent Article that Apple is about to announce a deal with Google, to offer Apple's iTunes Music service through its site.

    That's MAJOR news indeed.

    If it turns out to be right, it would be a great deal for both sides, as Apple will gain a wider audience for its music service iTunes through the enormous base of Google visitors, and Google too will at last have a music service to offer, like Yahoo did a while ago.
    No need for Google to start its own Music Service, they'll have the best Music Service by their side, what could be better than that.

    This is very exciting cooperation between two of the biggest and most influential companies in the Tech World, and it has never crossed my mind, until now.

    Let's wait and see.

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    1. Re:Complete blurb by quanticle · · Score: 5, Interesting

      The nice thing will be that you'll be able to search iTunes directly from Google. For example, if I'm looking for Bob Dylan stuff, and I do a Google search, I could get links to Bob Dylan songs on iTunes. Its reasonable for Google search to diversify into multimedia.

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  8. Re:Editors? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Uhhhhhhhhh. Where's the rest of the story? lol
    Paul Harvey has it. ;>)

  9. Re:to a...? by The+Bubble · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh, no! I get it! THEY GOT HIM! Somebody stuck him with a stake through the heart! Oh, this is so sad! CmdrTaco... I pine for you.


    Hi, everybody. In memoriam of poor 'Taco, let's go back and revisit a few of my favorite 'Taco memories.


    Baher Al Hakim writes...

    Oh, that was great. And who could forget this one?


    The Street suggests in a recent article that Apple is about to announce a deal with Google, to a...

    Ah, we sure had some great times 'Taco. I'm gonna miss you bro.

  10. Imagine something like google print by DaphneDiane · · Score: 5, Interesting

    One of the things I could see google offer is the ability to search for songs by lyrics and additional meta data. I know a lot of times when I purchase music via itunes and I don't know the actual name of the song the first thing I do is search for "lyrics" followed by the phrase from the song.

  11. Re:Huh... by slavemowgli · · Score: 5, Funny

    In Soviet Russia, Sla

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  12. Re:LINK TO SUBMITTER's BLOG alert by igbrown · · Score: 5, Informative

    Sorry. I think you are not paying attention to what's going on here.

    1) The submitter of the story included a link to an article on TheStreet.com.

    2) The story was truncated by a malformed HTML.

    3) The only link visible on the truncated story was the attribution link for the submitter.

    4) The submitter's link on his ID, like many of us, points to a homepage or blog.

    5) The grandparent of this post chastised the submitter (mistakenly, IMO) for astroturfing or whatever, based on the attribution link, without seeing the submitted story, which contained a link to thestreet.com.

    6) The submitters blog, displays the most recent post to the blog, which happened to be the same post he was trying to make to Slashdot.

    7) Please pay attention next time.