Google Music: Either stupid or “not evil”
Google just added music results to their search engine: type a popular artist’s name and you get a little music strip, much like their stock prices widget:
If you click on more music results, it takes you to an artist detail page with songs and albums:
Clicking on an album takes to another detail page, unfortunately forgetting your original search query in the top bar. This is a fairly major interface bug, so it’s puzzling that it’s there:
However, the moment of perfect stupidity or don’t be evil brilliance comes when you realize that their buy this album at iTunes, Amazon, or somewhere else links don’t have referral IDs and don’t generate revenue for them.
You might also wonder why you can’t search for lyrics or a song title. The blog entry Google uses as a press-release substitute explains that they can’t do it because of namespace conflicts. Personally, I just think they’re lazy. A snippet from a song is more strongly correlated with that song’s lyrics than the rest of the web.
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on December 20th, 2005 at 6:11 pm
If you search for a specific song and artist, it will have a snipit of the lyrics with links to places that have the full lyrics.
It’s not exactly what you’re looking for, but it works.
on December 21st, 2005 at 10:48 am
:) it’s work