Google Launches Google Music

George Meyson writes "Google has launched a new service known as Google Music that will allow a person to search fast links to song lyrics, musical artists and CD titles on the main search results page. The user can 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. Items that can be purchased will have links to merchants for online ordering or downloading. Initial merchant partners include Apple Computer's iTunes service, RealNetworks Rhapsody, eMusic and Amazon.com." From the Google Blog: "A few of us decided to try to make the information you get for these searches even better, so we created a music search feature. Now you can search for a popular artist name, like the Beatles or the Pixies, and often Google will show some information about that artist, like cover art, reviews, and links to stores where you can download the track or buy a CD via a link at the top of your web search results page."

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[elbenito69]

RIAA sues Google

The RIAA will not like this

[Anonymous Coward]

Do multiple searches, and you could string enough icons of music notes together to get a free song.

I have been using google music for years

[ponds]

Intitle:"Index of /" nameofartist nameofalbum mp3, I'm feeling lucky

Ob BASH

[schleyfox]

Insomniak`: Stupid fucking Google
Insomniak`: "The" is a common word, and was not included in your search
Insomniak`: "Who" is a common word, and was not included in your search

Re:I'm not a fan...

[boarder8925]

I just can't say I'm impressed. It was fine the way it was.

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how did **beatles-beatles not submit this one?

[dominux]

it even has Beatles in the summary, it was just asking to be submitted by him.

Re:how did **beatles-beatles not submit this one?

[Anonymous Coward]

He'll get it in the dupe.

Re:Gee ... no Yahoo Music Unlimited?

[theurge14]

That's because you have to rent the search results. :)

Re:The Pixies?

[Anonymous Coward]

My Wife caught the Pixies...

I'm sure there is some kind of ointment that will take care of that.

Phonetics Searches?

[jsldub]

That's all well and good, but what about phonetic searching of songs?

You know, that song that goes "da da da. da da. da da da. whirrrr!"

Re:Since TFA is /.'d

[RESPAWN]

If you think that's good, try searching for "French military victories" (without the quotes) and hit "I'm Feeling Lucky." You'll get a kick out of the result.

Coming Soon After:

[christian.elliott]

Google buys RIAA.

But will my usual Britney Spears goggles be ok?

[potus98]

I'm mean googles. Will my usual searches for Britney Spears be somehow disrupted by this new music search engine?

[steps away from tee...]