Google’s Playable Music Searcher

29th October, 2009 by adina
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Searches from all major labels, automatically filtered by artist, or by album, or by track, sampling or even buying of the preferred tracks from Lala or iLike (owned by MySpace), all these will now be available under a unique name – the advanced music search service of Google. This very expected search system was recently presented in Los Angeles by the search giant. It will be available in the United States the next days, but other areas would need separate deals with other web-based music services. For those who are using Internet streaming services like Rhapsody, Pandora or iMeem there is no problem to also find related music.

Lala and iLike are fully in advantage when using this new feature because they now benefit from only casual purchases of their musical products. Other web stores like Amazon MP3 or eMusic, not included in this deal, might be negatively affected by the launch of this new search service. On the other hand, software-specific stores with users who only rarely use web searches for visits do not seem to be affected directly. Zune Marketplace and iTunes are placed in this category.

Discovering and listening to music is a big part of users’ online activities. Google already has a wide enough piece of this action and has accounted for nearly 30% of the total traffic to music sites lately, according to Hitwise, a market research firm. This is five times more than Yahoo search which is second ranked.


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