Google Sneak Peek # 3: Enhanced Music Search
Posted on | November 29, 2009 | 2 Comments
Continuing my series on interesting products emerging from Google, I’d like to clue you in to Enhanced Music Search…
Google’s Enhanced Music Search
Notice what happens if you search for “Stevie Wonder” for example? You get this:
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Google unveiled a new music search feature making an alliance with those include Lala, Pandora, imeem, MySpace Music and Rhapsody, a subscription service from Real Networks, to give music fans an easier way to find, sample and buy songs on the Internet, expanding its music industry footprint. The search engine partnered with several music service sites that are responsible for streaming the songs on Google’s search results pages. All those partnered have licensing agreements with record labels to stream or sample millions of songs online.
Searching for Stevie Wonder, for instance, will deliver the singer’s album cover art, in addition to four popular songs that users can play once for free. The search results will allow you to play a whole song play to verify it is the song you are looking for rather than just the 30-second stream typical of most major online music providers.
In addition to providing search results, users searching for artists, songs or albums by name will receive links to audio previews and options to purchase tracks or albums from Google’s music search partners MySpace and Lala. The new service is also designed to help users locate songs by lyrics, if they do not know the full titles.
Sounds like a direct challenge to iTunes and Amazon.
For my next and final installment of the Google Sneak Peek series, I’m going to touch on an interesting development seen only in the mortgage industry… but it’s a secret.
If you missed the first two installments of my Google Sneak Peak Series, here’s a link to each:
Google Sneak Peek # 1: Ad Sitelinks
Google Sneak Peek # 2: Enhanced Google News
Paul Mosenson
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January 3rd, 2010 @ 4:13 pm
When did this come out? Pretty cool stuff, but still not available outside the US google (the .com)
January 5th, 2010 @ 9:52 am
Hey,
I believe this came out in early October 2009.