Comments on: Google Music, The King Maker? http://gigaom.com/2005/12/15/google-music-the-king-maker/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:26:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: erwan http://gigaom.com/2005/12/15/google-music-the-king-maker/#comment-111931 Sun, 07 Jan 2007 14:16:59 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/12/15/google-music-the-king-maker/#comment-111931 searching wave goodbye from steadman

]]> By: abby http://gigaom.com/2005/12/15/google-music-the-king-maker/#comment-111930 Sat, 28 Oct 2006 00:45:27 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/12/15/google-music-the-king-maker/#comment-111930 looking for a new orleans artist: Esther and the Protestors

]]> By: Anonymous http://gigaom.com/2005/12/15/google-music-the-king-maker/#comment-111929 Thu, 21 Sep 2006 09:16:17 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/12/15/google-music-the-king-maker/#comment-111929 on December 15th, 2005 at 9:52 AM

]]> By: Ken Dick http://gigaom.com/2005/12/15/google-music-the-king-maker/#comment-111928 Wed, 31 May 2006 02:58:49 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/12/15/google-music-the-king-maker/#comment-111928 I am searching for the music to Goodbye from The White Horse Inn Regards Ken Dick

]]> By: nolin http://gigaom.com/2005/12/15/google-music-the-king-maker/#comment-111927 Fri, 16 Dec 2005 16:48:33 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/12/15/google-music-the-king-maker/#comment-111927 is it just me, or is this some serious over-hype for a rather insignificant Google add-on? somebody obviously owns a lot of Google shares.

]]> By: chris holland http://gigaom.com/2005/12/15/google-music-the-king-maker/#comment-111926 Fri, 16 Dec 2005 15:36:28 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/12/15/google-music-the-king-maker/#comment-111926 i think Google’s ostensible linking to the iTunes Music Store might be its perhaps temporary way to somewhat mitigate the fact that it doesn’t provide you with sampling. iTMS URLs will fire-up iTunes which lets you sample songs right-away, before buying.

Also, iTMS is likely a faster path to instant gratification for actually *owning* music. It has wider coverage with a collection that’ll cater to the widest audiences, it lets you *own* music, not “subscribe to it”, works on Mac and PCs, lets you burn to CD, and works with the only music player on the market that people actually give a damn about, namely the iPod.

]]> By: {clausmoser|com} » Googles Musiksuche http://gigaom.com/2005/12/15/google-music-the-king-maker/#comment-111925 Fri, 16 Dec 2005 13:02:29 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/12/15/google-music-the-king-maker/#comment-111925 [...] Google Search finde ich so naja. Um nicht zu sagen, eher langweilig. Interessant sind höchstens die Hintergrundgeräusche, die etwas alberne Aufregung um die Suchfunktion für Songtexte (kann man doch schon immer über Google finden) und die Frage, welchen Einfluß Google auf den CD- und Download-Markt nehmen könnte. Yahoos Musikshop scheint zum Beispiel nie in den Suchergebnissen aufzutauchen, iTunes dagegen oft. [...]

]]> By: Chris http://gigaom.com/2005/12/15/google-music-the-king-maker/#comment-111924 Fri, 16 Dec 2005 03:14:59 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/12/15/google-music-the-king-maker/#comment-111924 What is so special about google audio search?

Don’t get me wrong, I like google alot, but I just do not see why there has to be so much fan fare around a product already provided by others…

Yahoo had it’s audio search for a while…
http://audio.search.yahoo.com/

Yahoo! lets you specify which subscription services you are a member of, so you can download a song directly from there and not a vendor google’s specifies… particularly helpful if you have an account with a provider other than iTunes.
Also, Yahoo!’s searches podcasts, which I have become a fan of.

In fact, I like it alot more than google’s, whose results (on initial analysis) do not always show what I am looking for in a music search.

]]> By: Kashif Haq http://gigaom.com/2005/12/15/google-music-the-king-maker/#comment-111923 Fri, 16 Dec 2005 01:50:36 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/12/15/google-music-the-king-maker/#comment-111923 I guess integration of video libraries is next. This announcement is interesting, I do think that a BROADER Google and Apple partnership could be a very powerful proposition for consumers and blow to the competition.

]]> By: Ian Scott » Blog Archive » Google Music Search http://gigaom.com/2005/12/15/google-music-the-king-maker/#comment-111922 Fri, 16 Dec 2005 01:05:22 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/12/15/google-music-the-king-maker/#comment-111922 [...] Om says he found lots of obscure music, but my favorite band from college isn’t included. [...]

]]> By: EAS http://gigaom.com/2005/12/15/google-music-the-king-maker/#comment-111921 Fri, 16 Dec 2005 01:01:40 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/12/15/google-music-the-king-maker/#comment-111921 Looks like I missed the boat a bit about the full extent of Music Search.

]]> By: EAS http://gigaom.com/2005/12/15/google-music-the-king-maker/#comment-111919 Thu, 15 Dec 2005 21:56:00 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/12/15/google-music-the-king-maker/#comment-111919 About Google not having good commerce links for independent artists. It isn’t exactly suprising that Google went for the lowest hanging fruit at launch by targeting links to the big retailers, who will tend to underrepresent independent artists. On the other hand, they invite independent sellers to submit their stores.

What I think is a bit odd is that results for Harvey Danger, whose latest album is completely self released, link directly to the band’s own storefront. Odder still, the link is lowercase, while every other specialized link I’ve seen under a band’s result is capitolized.

]]> By: Poster http://gigaom.com/2005/12/15/google-music-the-king-maker/#comment-111920 Thu, 15 Dec 2005 21:46:08 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/12/15/google-music-the-king-maker/#comment-111920 It would be smart for Google to hook into existing databases of artists, such as MusicMoz.org and MusicBrainz.org.

]]> By: The Bay Area Is Talking http://gigaom.com/2005/12/15/google-music-the-king-maker/#comment-111918 Thu, 15 Dec 2005 20:49:49 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/12/15/google-music-the-king-maker/#comment-111918 Sing Along with Larry and Sergey

Imagine we’re all sitting around a digital campfire. Someone is strumming songs on a guitar. Someone else is making requests. Meanwhile in the corner, Larry and Sergey are staring at a computer, bringing up more tunes on the new Google…

]]> By: Oddstar » Google Music http://gigaom.com/2005/12/15/google-music-the-king-maker/#comment-111917 Thu, 15 Dec 2005 19:17:13 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/12/15/google-music-the-king-maker/#comment-111917 [...] Google Music = added functionality built into the search engine itself…Not an actual application. I know all the Itunes fans were dissapointed there for a minute! When I do a search on lets say Chris Botti, whom is a personal favorite, I get a brief summary of his career. Then there are the advanced results, even linking to the itunes library… [...]

]]> By: atri http://gigaom.com/2005/12/15/google-music-the-king-maker/#comment-111916 Thu, 15 Dec 2005 18:37:59 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/12/15/google-music-the-king-maker/#comment-111916 While interesting, google Music is nothing more than a catch-up to yahoo, ask jeeves and bunch of others who have a “static” search for music related information, images, etc.

As Om mentioned, what this is sorely missing is the ability to listen to the music itself. And thats what Mercora has ( http://www.mercora.com ): Instant gratification for the listner.

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