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December 14, 2005

Google Music Search Live

Google's now showing a little "one-box" at the top of their search results for music-related searches. Basically just plugging a hole in their search experience by offering a service that's been found on Yahoo, MSN, Ask Jeeves, and AOL for some time now.

According to SEW:

"Google has no financial relationship with the sellers of music. Placement in search results is determined by a combination of the retailer's page rank and other relevance factors, as well as an element of "randomness" to ensure "fairness," according to [Google Product Manager Marissa] Mayer."

Nothing ground-breaking, but a nice feature to have nonetheless. AP has the story, and here's an example page for the search sunny day real estate.

Drilling down will give you albums, then song titles, then lyric snippets.. There's even reviews on a few of them.

Update: They just posted on it over at the Google blog.

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