Oct 26, 2009
Google Music Search In The Works
Written under: Internet, Lifestyle, MusicGoogle will soon launch music search pages and include ways for consumers to buy and download songs.
The music pages will package images of musicians and bands, album artwork, links to news, lyrics and song previews, along with a way to buy songs, according to anonymous sources who are still not allowed to publicly talk about this matter until its official announcement next week.
The package is similar to how companies get individual pages for Google’s financial news service.
Song previews and sales will be provided by online music retailer Lala and iLike, and users won’t have to navigate away from the search results page.
The effort marks a new way for Google and the recording companies to promote alternatives to Apple Inc.’s iTunes, the leader in song downloads.
Major recording companies – including Vivendi SA’s Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group Corp. and EMI Group PLC – pitched the idea to Google a year ago and are cooperating with the project, according to one person.
They will benefit by sharing revenue from song sales with Lala and iLike, while making the discovery, experimentation and buying process simple for people who use Google to search for music.
