Video: Google Music Search Feature

Every day we get millions of search queries about music. You want to know more about your favorite artists, find that new album or iconic song or figure out the name of that tune stuck in your head. In fact, according to Insights for Search, two of the top 10 queries in the U.S. are music-related. But often, if your answer is in a song, it can take a while to get there. We call this "time to result" -- and we're always looking for ways to reduce it. Today, we're rolling out a search feature that [...]

Google brings together My Space, lala, imeem, Rhapsody, Gracenote for robust music search. More partners t.b.a. (NEWS & VIDEO) Last night Google announced partnerships that will simplify and improve how people find music. As only the tech giant could do, MySpace, lala, imeem, Rhapsody, Pandora [...]

Google is about to crank up the usefulness of its music search, by offering more direct links to play and buy tracks. But here, let them tell you about it: The taking a lyric and offering a preview of the song its from is pretty neat. Depending on how well it works, of course. Interesting that it doesn't seem to offer a link to YouTube videos of the songs.