Live Blogging From The Google Discover Music Launch Event

Oct 28, 2009 at 7:00pm ET by Danny Sullivan

The expected Google Music Search is real, and our Google Music Search 2.0 Launches With Musical "OneBox" story provides the play-by-play of how it works. Be sure to read that! From me, the color commentary out of today's launch event at Capitol Records in Hollywood. I'll be live blogging the news. We're expecting some musical stars, including guests from OneRepublic, Dead By Sunrise, Linkin Park and Mos Def. I'll do my best to keep up, given my lack of popular musical culture makes me the butt of jokes to those who know me well. Have mercy, OK? And it's 4:04pm, with loud music playin [...]

Filed in: Features: General, Google: Music

Google Music Search 2.0 Launches With Musical “OneBox”

Oct 28, 2009 at 7:00pm ET by Matt McGee

Saying that it wants to bring music fans "closer to your favorite artists," Google has added a new Music Search OneBox to its search results. The new OneBox includes content from partner sites such as MySpace, Pandora, Lala and others, and lets searchers listen to song clips right from Google's search results page. Searchers should begin to see the new OneBox in the next 24 hours. Google has had a music OneBox before, but it disappeared some time ago, perhaps in preparation for the launch of this new Music Search 2.0, as we're calling it. There's also a deeper search function that only surf [...]

Filed in: Google: Music, Google: OneBox, Plus Box & Direct Answers, Top News

Rumor: Here Comes GTunes, Google Music Service

Oct 21, 2009 at 11:30am ET by Greg Sterling

Google is reportedly about to launch a new music service in partnership with LaLa and iLike (MySpace). --- Update, October 28, 2009: This is now live. See our story, Google Music Search 2.0 Launches With Musical “OneBox” for more. --- According to TechCrunch, users will access the Google music service through search: Users will be able to stream songs directly from Google via partners iLike and LaLa. Additional information around the music query will be provided to users as well (presumably any relevant results from YouTube as well as information already available in Google’s e [...]

Filed in: Google: Mobile, Google: Music, Google: Partnerships, Top News

Google China Launches Music Search

Aug 6, 2008 at 9:06am ET by Barry Schwartz

Music 2.0 has shared detailed screen captures and commentary on the launch of Google China Music Search. I personally cannot get to this site ("Sorry, Google is not your region provide you with the services they need" message appears"), but Music 2.0 does have screen captures and calls this Google service "more impressive" then many of the international counterparts. Google China Music Search ranks music on the home page by some form of popularity metric. You can clearly search by artist name and other criteria. You can even download the DRM-free music in mp3 format at a rate of 192kbps. [...]

Filed in: Google: Music, Google: Outside US, Search Engines: Audio Search Engines, Search Engines: Baidu, Search Engines: China Search Engines

Google To Fight Baidu In China With Legal Music Downloads?

Feb 6, 2008 at 8:03am ET by Danny Sullivan

One of the key weaknesses Google has seemed to face in growing market share in China has been the fact that many people turn to Baidu to download music. Now the company may be fixing this, reports the Wall Street Journal: Two years after Google Inc. began a big push in China, Baidu.com Inc. continues to dominate the country's Internet search market, thanks in significant part to a controversial and legally risky offering: searches for free, unlicensed music downloads. Now, Google is preparing a counterstrike, according to people close to the situation. The U.S. search giant is in the late [...]

Filed in: Google: Music, Google: Outside US, Google: Partnerships, Search Engines: Baidu, Search Engines: China Search Engines

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