Google’s music search

 

Google launches music search US service will enable people to find songs by typing in lyrics and direct them to sites where they can buy music

Article history Google has launched a music search service for internet users in the United States that will provide information about artists and quick access to licensed music providers.

The new search feature on Google.com will allow people to find songs, even if they know only a few of the lyrics, by simply typing a line or two.

“People searching for an artist, song or album will get what they are looking for right at the top of their search results, with links to audio previews and the option to purchase music from Google’s music search partners MySpace and Lala,” Google said.

The internet company said the new feature was designed to help users find music and help artists, labels, songwriters and music publishers by driving traffic to licensed online music services. Google has not struck any revenue-sharing deals with labels as part of the new service. Instead it says the feature is merely a search function linking people up with existing legal music sites.

“Lots of people search for music through Google, so it made sense for us to find a way to get them to the content they’re looking for faster,” said Tom Stocky, Google’s director of product management. “The best answer to a query is frequently not a web page but a map, a video, an image or some other kind of content.

This launch makes search better by adding music to the list of things we can connect people to speedily, as well as providing a revenue source for artists, labels and others.”

Google starts its Waveing

Google Wave, a browser-based tool combines email, instant messaging and real-time interaction, is one of the most anticipated products to emerge this year.

Today at 4pm BST the company will send out invitations to 100,000 users for further beta testing, including developers, people who signed up early and some users of Google Apps.

Google first showcased the product in May and published an 80-minute video on YouTube, which has been was watched more than 4m times to date.

The buzz about the collaboration tool soon became deafening. Some have claimed that Google Wave is just an “email and instant messaging on steroids”, but it could well well change the way web users collaborate. Indeed, the structure of the tool is flexible enough that it could be adapted for many different kinds of team working. Examples that have been suggested include the planing of a trip; scientific work in the lab or on an academic paper; the streamlining of the movie-making process; collaborative business modeling; or journalism.

Indeed, Google Wave might have an impact on the landscape of journalism. It could change newsrooms and boost citizen journalism. Google Wave could speed up the collaborative journalistic process from research to writing, including quotes, enriching articles with pictures and videos. Stories could be corrected by subeditors using Google Wave, while readers could suggest changes and use the tool to discuss the article.

If you want to lear more about the Wave … check out this video

However, this buzz doesn’t guarantee the success of Google Wave. Although the product connects with other live editing tools, it still might fail to reach a critical mass.

The fact that Google Wave will run in most browsers except Internet Explorer might be a setback; users of the Microsoft browser will have to download a plug-in called Chrome Frame to use the application.

Google pretty much are taking over the world … ! So what do we think about this ?