Google Launching Music Search
2009-10-21 by Alex C. Murderface | 25 Replies | 1207 Views

New information has surfaced on Google's plans to get in on digital music distribution.

Last year Google launched a service in China that allowed users to search for music and download the song for free. The service for the rest of the world will be slightly different.

Instead of free downloads, Google will fetch the song the user searches for across various digital vendors (such as Lala and iLike), and feed them the results for free streaming and paid download.

As of now, the service is known as OneBox, and will only act as a web search, not a desktop client or iTunes-like storefront.

Google is expected to announce an official press release on October 28th.

Screenshots of OneBox can be seen at the links below.

http://gizmodo.com/5386856/first-screenshots-of-googles-music-service

http://gizmodo.com/5386574/how-will-googles-rumored-music-service-work-updated-oh-like-this

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xNerox


Comments: 95
10.21.09


I approve of this.

Rugter32


Comments: 544
10.21.09


Fuck Google... No matter how good this might be, fuck Google, to hell with them... They ruin my Youtube they ruin my life.

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Prophet178


Comments: 3080
10.21.09


How did they ruin Youtube? By making it HQ and HD?

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iarescientists


Comments: 4466
10.21.09


this already exists lol

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Cesar21


Comments: 2467
10.21.09


Interesting

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joshuatree
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Comments: 2528
10.21.09

Album Rating: 1

pretty sure everyone uses google to search for music anyways

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FistfulOfSteel


Comments: 632
10.21.09


blogspot searches will still prevail.

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MaskAtTheMasquerade


Comments: 550
10.21.09


^ yes it will

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Prophet178


Comments: 3080
10.21.09


I just hope this service being launched doesn't make the labels/google crack down on the blogs more.

WeepingBanana


Comments: 73
10.21.09


i think in a few years google is gonna take over the world....

and i'm totally ok with that

UhhKris


Comments: 3791
10.21.09


i think in a few years google is gonna take over the world....

and i'm totally ok with that


tool

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IndieOut


Comments: 262
10.21.09


lol. i dunno, this sounds a lot like change, and we all know what change does for people; cause disease.

yupp. no homo marriages!

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MentalityOfA


Comments: 821
10.21.09


This is cool.

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Zip


Comments: 3731
10.21.09


yeah but what if Google restricts blogspot in order to capitalize on their own downloads?

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FistfulOfSteel


Comments: 632
10.21.09


then dl as much as you can now, duh

Zip


Comments: 3731
10.21.09


Ugh

Prophet178


Comments: 3080
10.21.09


Google isn't making the money though, the distributor is. The only reason Google is doing this is to maximize on ad revenue, they could care less where you actually get your music, as long as you're searching on Google.

Zip


Comments: 3731
10.21.09


oh. Alright.

Demonicgman


Comments: 236
10.22.09


i use google for everything, porn, music, games, movies, more porn...fap fap fap fap fap

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cirq


Comments: 3755
10.22.09


googleporn

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Demonicgman


Comments: 236
10.22.09


^the best kind

musicaddiction101


Comments: 654
10.22.09


^ The gayest kind. K'p.^

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GymLeaderBrock


Comments: 51
10.22.09


google already provides a music search

omg oh no i di'nt

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Exile29


Comments: 129
10.22.09


ist good

itachi1452


Comments: 344
10.22.09


Google might as well just buy the Internet already.

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