Google Whistles A New Tune
I always find it hard to get back into the swing of things after a conference like last week's Search Engine Strategies show. There's something about returning to the office to find my "inbox" full (which is a funny thing too seeing how I make an effort to attend to emails during the show) and my project work-load doubled that makes me not want to show up on Monday. Does this happen to you?
Don't get me wrong... I love what I do and I enjoy working with those I work with, but the last thing I want to do after returning from a conference is to attend to clients, leads, or company email. In fact, my desires lie within reviewing my conference notes, exploring the latest SEO techniques and strategies, and playing around with all the new tools and resources I learned about the previous week. Oh well... there's always next week.
By the way, I did find time to publish my SES conference pics the other day if anyone's interested. Check them out: Search Engine Strategies, December 2005 Pictures.
Alright, seeing how my headline refers to "Google Whistling a New Tune" I should probably begin discussing the main topic of this entry, which is Google's new Music Search. That's right, Google this past week launched a new service which is intended to give searchers fast links to song lyrics, musical artists and CD titles on the main search results page.
Google Music will allow a person to type in the name of a band, artist, album or song in the main Google search bar special, and results will appear at the top, accompanied by icons of music notes. Results will also include links to supplemental Google Web pages with more information about the music, including names of tracks on a CD and other CDs a band or artist has released. Google also will provide snippets of reviews from sites on the Web and links to those sites.
It's great to see that Google is committed to adding and providing valuable search services to its users, but in my opinion they are a bit late to the game as competitors Ask Jeeves, MSN, and Yahoo! have all offered similar features for some time now. Personally, I find myself searching music and entertainment related topics on the Ask Jeeves search engine. Ask Jeeves has offered a Smart Search box for many pop artists for some time. Here's an example for U2. Here you'll find a short bio and picture (via AllMusic.com, an amazing reference resource all by itself) along with a links to read the full bio on AllMusic.com. The same happens when searching popular actors and so forth.
Google has a lot of catching up to do if they are going to start competing with the other search giants on a "Music Search" level, but if anyone can... Google can.
Don't get me wrong... I love what I do and I enjoy working with those I work with, but the last thing I want to do after returning from a conference is to attend to clients, leads, or company email. In fact, my desires lie within reviewing my conference notes, exploring the latest SEO techniques and strategies, and playing around with all the new tools and resources I learned about the previous week. Oh well... there's always next week.
By the way, I did find time to publish my SES conference pics the other day if anyone's interested. Check them out: Search Engine Strategies, December 2005 Pictures.
Alright, seeing how my headline refers to "Google Whistling a New Tune" I should probably begin discussing the main topic of this entry, which is Google's new Music Search. That's right, Google this past week launched a new service which is intended to give searchers fast links to song lyrics, musical artists and CD titles on the main search results page.
Google Music will allow a person to type in the name of a band, artist, album or song in the main Google search bar special, and results will appear at the top, accompanied by icons of music notes. Results will also include links to supplemental Google Web pages with more information about the music, including names of tracks on a CD and other CDs a band or artist has released. Google also will provide snippets of reviews from sites on the Web and links to those sites.
It's great to see that Google is committed to adding and providing valuable search services to its users, but in my opinion they are a bit late to the game as competitors Ask Jeeves, MSN, and Yahoo! have all offered similar features for some time now. Personally, I find myself searching music and entertainment related topics on the Ask Jeeves search engine. Ask Jeeves has offered a Smart Search box for many pop artists for some time. Here's an example for U2. Here you'll find a short bio and picture (via AllMusic.com, an amazing reference resource all by itself) along with a links to read the full bio on AllMusic.com. The same happens when searching popular actors and so forth.
Google has a lot of catching up to do if they are going to start competing with the other search giants on a "Music Search" level, but if anyone can... Google can.
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