morad rayyan’s blog

I've always anticipated this move from Google, to go large with music search as it is a big market to tap into.

Basically, what is going to happen is when users go to Google to search for music by artist name or song name, they won't just get a plain text or links to YouTube videos. Instead, the first set of links will be to the audio recording itself or video.

But the question is, to what extent will this harm music industry revenue? As people will be able to play their favorite songs by one search away.

Anyway, I think the main reason for Google to jump into the wagon this soon is because of Bing. Where Bing is introducing search results into a whole new level, which Google ain't providing *yet*.