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Google Search is showing YouTube Music links on album queries
More visibility for the platform may mean more subscribers.
Bing search app for iOS & Android gets new music, video & map features
Bing's making it easier to find song titles, as well as add Netflix and Amazon movie titles to your watchlist on mobile.
Music Is Google’s Latest Ad Test In The Knowledge Panel
Search Google for bands or musicians from Katy Perry to Cat Stevens, and you’ll now see ads appearing in the Knowledge Panel. The ads are Google’s latest effort to test new ad formats and monetize the prominent real estate of the Knowledge Panel. It should also be noted that the ads provide Google’s own streaming […]
Bing Now Searches Music That You Can Listen & Play On Xbox Music
PC World reports that Microsoft Bing has added a way to search for music available within Xbox Music. Now, if you search for a song, for example [U2 all that you can’t leave behind] on Bing, on the right hand panel, you will see a box for “Listen to music.” There, you will be able […]
Speculation, Intrigue Surround Google’s Delayed Cloud-Tunes Music Service
Google’s streaming-from-the-cloud-to-any-device music service was supposed to launch at the end of last year. Vic Gundotra demonstrated it at the 2010 Google developer conference. However music-rights and licensing issues have so far delayed it according to several reports. This, despite Google offering boatloads of cash to music labels. Now several outlets are reporting that the […]
With Lala Closing, Google Music Search May Use Alternatives
With Apple-owned Lala closing in a month, what happens to Google Music Search, which has used Lala clips as part of its service? We’ll see, says Google — noting there are variety of alternatives out there? When you do a music-related search on Google, you often get special Music OneBox that appears at the top […]
The YouTube Music Discovery Project
YouTube has launched the YouTube Music Discovery Project. It is a new tool they are testing, which helps you search for music and create YouTube playlists based on that query. You basically enter an artist’s name into the search box, hit “Disco” and it then returns results which you can add to your playlist. Here […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 29, 2009
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: So What Are We To Make Of The “Ying” Search Delay? I got two calls yesterday from people asking what I made of the Yahoo-Microsoft failure to meet their self-imposed search-deal […]
Live Blogging From The Google Discover Music Launch Event
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 […]
Rumor: Here Comes GTunes, Google Music Service
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 […]
Google China Launches Music Search
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 […]