Google music search

[TankGirl]

http://www.google.com/musicsearch

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Google Searches for Music

Search king gets in a musical groove by adding information about performers, albums, and music stores.

Google added a music search feature on Thursday to its search engine that will provide more information about artists, album cover art, reviews, and links to stores where users can download a track or buy a CD.

The Mountain View, California-based search king plans to provide results initially for popular musicians and bands in the United States and some from other countries, and expand to other types of music such as classical.

The new search facility will enable Google to better differentiate between music-related searches and searches for information that just happen to include the same words as a song or band name.

“You might be thinking, ‘Why can’t I just type in an album name or a song name and get the same music search results?’” wrote David Alpert, search quality product manager at Google, in a blog posting.

“There are many album names and songs which are also plain English words,” he added. “Sometimes users are looking for music information related to those words, and sometimes they aren’t.”