Google Now Offering Music Search
Updated · Oct 20, 2024
“The nice thing about Google’s implementation is that it links to other stores, including MSN music and iTunes,” said Yankee Group analyst Nitin Gupta. “It will also return links to stores that sell CDs, such as CD Universe, and in many cases it will tell you how much the album costs at each of these stores.
Google announced this week that it intends to make searches for online music a bit easier for its users.
The new music-search feature will return a wide array of relevant information on music-related topics, such as artist biographies, song information, and even the retailers who are selling music downloads and CDs.
“A few of us decided to try to make the information you get for [music] searches even better, so we created a music search feature,” David Alpert, Google’s search quality product manager, wrote in a blog entry.
Only by Artist Name
According to the company, the new feature will function in the same manner as the company’s movie and weather searches, with links placed at the top of the page for related information.
Currently, the music-search feature will return results on popular artists in the U.S. and a limited number of artists from other countries. However, the search giant plans to expand those groups to include classical music and less well-known performers.
“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 link at that top of your Web search-results page,” Alpert wrote.
The only kink users might find in the service is that the search must be performed by artist name, not album. In a preemptive response to potential criticism, Alpert explained in his blog that the artist-name restriction applies because “there are many album names and songs which are also plain English words” and users might or might not be looking for information related to those words.
As Google gains more knowledge about what type of music information users want, the company will be able to expand search parameters to include more kinds of queries.
Joining the Crowd
While Google is making headlines with this new venture, online music searches are nothing new. Search competitors Yahoo and MSN already offer music searches, but they focus on pointing to content from their own music stores.
Not only does Google provide information from a host of music retailers, but the search portal is encouraging music store owners who would like to be listed to get in touch with the company for placement.
“The nice thing about Google’s implementation is that it links to other stores, including MSN music and iTunes,” said Yankee Group analyst Nitin Gupta. “It will also return links to stores that sell CDs, such as CD Universe, and in many cases it will tell you how much the album costs at each of these stores.”
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