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Google Partners With LyricFind To Display Songs Lyrics In Search Results (billboard.com)
Google has signed a multi-year licensing deal with LyricFind, a Toronto-based firm that provides lyrics of songs. As a result of the collaboration, users will now see song lyrics directly in the search results, both the companies have announced. From a BillBoard report:A query for the lyrics to a specific song will pull up the words to much of that song, freeing users from having to click through to another website. Google rolled out the lyrics feature in the U.S. today (June 27), though it has licenses to display the lyrics internationally as well. While the terms of the deal weren't disclosed, LyricFinder Chief Executive and co-founder Darryl Ballantyne projects publishers and songwriters seeing "millions" of dollars in additional revenue from this arrangement.The move comes six years after Microsoft partnered with LyricFind to display lyrics on Bing.com (Archived link).
Does anyone remember this site? They were shut down because allowing searches on lyrics and providing lyrics were deemed to be a copyright violation. People argued that getting the lyrics in the cd jacket was part of the allure of buying the product.
Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.
It works with Louie-Louie.
Have gnu, will travel.
when Google has so much power over what we can search for and the results that we get, that they will be able to(at first) subtly modify things, whether its song lyrics or news or opionions, etc;
Wait, they are already doing that...
We play the game with the bravery of being out of range
That's pathetic compared to the DuckDuckGo bang syntax.
Normal search query (search in DuckDuckGo): "streets of london"
Redirect search to Google: "!g streets of london"
Redirect search to Bing: "!b streets of london"
Redirect search to Wikipedia: "!w streets of london"
Redirect search to google maps: "!maps streets of london"
etc, etc, etc.
See here: https://duck.co/help/results/s... and here https://duckduckgo.com/bang.
DuckDuckGo's results often aren't the best, but they make it up by having a damn nice interface. Google's search syntax is just embarrassing in comparison.