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Google Music Search

5 November 2009

Google makes one more step into joining the web’s music industry as they unveil last week a service for finding, listening to, or buying songs online.

Search Engine giant Google partnered with Imeem, Lala.com, myspace-owned Ilike.com, Pandora internet radio and Rhapsody in providing sample song downloads or purchasing them online.

“The search results will allow you to do 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 google vice president of search Marissa Mayer said before a demonstration of the new service known as OneBox.

7 Comments »

  • christian said:

    wow that;s cool news google really is giving us a lot ways to enjoy being online

    # 24 November 2009 at 4:26 pm
  • Frank Goley@ABC Business Consulting said:

    wow, i am sure now people will easily sort the music they want, this is same as finding books from google search, and in near future i think google will host music too so that people can hear directly via online.

    # 12 December 2009 at 3:16 pm
  • Eric @ Bike Paint said:

    Google seems to be mounting a more aggressive penetration into the commerce space. Buying music online is so proliferate that I wonder if anyone is making money off it? I just hope the artists themselves aren’t casualties when it comes to their creative rights and just compensation.

    # 14 December 2009 at 11:20 pm
  • tommy said:

    ow yeah google, more and more quality search. very awesome

    # 18 December 2009 at 7:53 pm
  • John Jeracevich said:

    Financial terms of the partnerships aren’t yet clear. “Everyone’s keeping their own revenues and we’re not messing with anything,” Lala founder and Chairman Bill Nguyen told CNET News. But MySpace Music President Courtney Holt was a bit more tight-lipped, saying “we’re not discussing the financial details.”

    # 30 December 2009 at 4:17 pm
  • Mark Daniel@Abs Workout said:

    Music search is something that Google could really dominate. According to traffic firm Experian Hitwise, 6 percent of Google’s top 1,000 search-related terms deal with music, and already 30 percent of traffic to sites that Hitwise classifies under the “music” umbrella comes from Google.

    # 30 December 2009 at 4:17 pm
  • shane@xbox controller mod said:

    Google dominate searches for web pages and searches for images already, with this they can add music to that list. Im suprised they havent integrated YouTube into Google a bit more to try and pass some of the YouTube traffic back to Google.

    # 7 January 2010 at 9:37 pm

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