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Google Launches Google Music

Posted by Zonk on from the next-post-to-cover-riaa-suit-against-google dept.

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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  1. Coolness by voice_of_all_reason · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Hasn't the RIAA issued cease-and-decist letters to lyric websites before?

    Their response will certainly be interesting. Do I detect a brawl of the titans coming?

    1. Re:Coolness by PaxTech · · Score: 4, Interesting
      Are you saying that Google should be liable for the content they link to?

      The record companies seem to think so.

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    2. Re:Coolness by generic-man · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Google cease-and-desisted a user for creating RSS feeds of Google News a year before doing the same thing themselves.

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  2. I'm not a fan... by garcia · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I guess I'm set in my ways and all but I'm just not a fan of this. I realize Google has to make money and this is one way of doing it but I'd rather just enter the name of a band or part of a song and find out the lyrics, cover art, etc the old fashioned way... With the great results Google used to return.

    Now, with this, I'm going to be inundated with more advertisements. I already knew that I could go to iTMS, Amazon.com, allofmp3, etc to get my music after I found what I was looking for. Why do I need Google to tell me?

    I was raving about GMail, Google Maps, in the past but with the last two "additions" which were Web Clips in GMail and now this, I just can't say I'm impressed. It was fine the way it was.

  3. One important detail Google forgot by theurge14 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Track times.

    This is extremely important when we're, ahem, looking for these songs and we don't want to confuse it with live versions, covers, etc.

    If Google puts that in there, I no longer have to use AllMusic.com to look album information up.

  4. Re:Since TFA is /.'d by mottie · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Thanks.. I wish google would pick a standard for linking.

    local.google.com
    maps.google.com
    google.com/musicsearch

    Now I feel stupid that I didn't know this without having to sift through comments to find it...

  5. Google search by Andrewkov · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Google search: 'scuse me while I kiss this guy

    Did you mean: 'scuse me while I kiss the sky

    Cool!

  6. Re:Better yet by Blitzshlag · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That already exists thanks to Alexa opening up their API: http://www.musipedia.org/

  7. Re:Coming Soon: by Amouth · · Score: 3, Interesting

    oh i can't wait.. and then google can jsut turn around and say

    "OK you don't want it on google *click* there gone.. now they will never apear on google agian, on any part, in any place, oh and *click* your subnets banned for abusing the service please feel free to go to the public liberary to use our services"

    Personaly i think the Artists should be scared if the RIAA is crazy enough to go after google.

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