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Google Music Search in U.S.?

Nic Pfost [PersonRank 1]

Monday, August 18, 2008
15 years ago2,747 views

Somehow i ended up on the following:

http://www.google.com/musicsearch?q=iz

just typing: http://www.google.com/musicsearch doesn't work, you have to include some sort of query "?q=XXXX".

interesting that when you click on an artist, you can see their album history, photos of them (which actually just links to a Google images search of their name), and you can "discuss this artist".

but "discuss this artist" just takes you to a Google Groups search results with that artist as the query.

i guess at least they're trying to be social.

;-)

Nic Pfost [PersonRank 1]

15 years ago #

http://lh3.ggpht.com/pfostpfilms/SKjHbsTEpaI/AAAAAAAAAVk/_qUHxnHvq7Y/Picture%201.png
http://picasaweb.google.com/pfostpfilms/Pfostpfilms/photo?authkey=s3HUF73i3c0#5235653845379753378

is this new? or am i late to the party?

[Image embedded – Tony]

Colin Colehour [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

They've had music search for awhile. I don't know the exact date. I love the fact they have ways of buying digital music from multiple services. Services include (iTunes, Aol Music Now, Rhapsody, eMusic).

Using your example from above:
http://www.google.com/musicl?lid=8GeIB_U0OBP&aid=ES6XGXBZIUG

One thing I don't understand though is why don't they have YouTube links associated with the Related web pages section? They could make it do a simple query of YouTube just like they did with the Google Groups example that you mentioned above. I really think it would be cool if Google bought a company like iLike.com so when you do an artist search in Google it could also allow you to play the track or artist you searched on.

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