What other [free] products could Google possibly supply us with?
Hot on the heels of yesterday's public confession of its new fascination with widgets, Internet un-portal Google has unveiled yet another new service: Google Music. Accessible from the main search page, Google Music provides information on albums, lyrics, and other artist-related information. When users enter the artist or song name as a search argument, a small box with the artists name and image (or icon of music notes) appears at the top of the results.
Music search? Is that even worthy of a note? I found this at ars technica (which has an amazing amount of extremely interesting articles lately it seems).
The thing that gets me is the lyrics part of their post. It's not in the next paragraph:
Clicking on the link will take you to a Google Music page with links to artist information, album information, artist websites, photos, along with online discussions. There are also the inevitable "buy this album" links to places like the iTunes Music Store, Amazon, Wal-Mart, and other online merchants.
With the RIAA, ASCAP, and BMI announcing in the last few days that they will now be going after tableture and lyric sites, would it be smart for Google to offer up artist's lyrics in their search results? I don't think so.
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