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Google music feature
A new music feature rolled out by Google will bring searchers one click away from listening to a full-length song.
The simple design brings up to four songs to the top of search results. Once one is clicked on, the song will play on pop-up players from MySpace or Lala.
The search results are also accompanied by album art and links to music sites Pandora, imeem and Rhapsody.
Internet users can search by artist name, album or song title and can even access a song by typing in part of its lyrics.
The clutter-free box pushes down other search results, such as the artists’ home page and fan sites, and reduces how much clicking is needed to hear a song.
R.J. Pittman, Google’s director of product management, said: “Great restraint in the design of this is what’s going to maximize its adoption.”
Recording companies are supportive of the move to put legitimate sources of music at the forefront of new technology.
MySpace Music is the social network’s joint venture with recording companies which marks a coup for News Corp which spent over £10 million this month on music recommendation engine iLike.
ILike had been working on the project with Google for months, according to co-founder Ali Partovi. After clicking on a song, a MySpace music player will pop up roughly half the time to play it in full at least once, with an option to buy song downloads from Amazon or Apple’s iTunes.
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