Comments on: Google’s new music search

By: Sten’s Blog » Blog Archive » Search is not Discovery

Sten’s Blog » Blog Archive » Search is not Discovery — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:26:58 +0000

[...] Lamere over at Music Machinery has a great write-up about Google’s new music search feature. To give you a sense of where he stands, he ends the [...]

By: Agustín Méndez (matagus) 's status on Thursday, 29-Oct-09 13:29:12 UTC - Identi.ca

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:29:34 +0000

[...] http://musicmachinery.com/2009/10/28/googles-new-music-search/ [...]

By: Zac

Zac — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:44:16 +0000

Looks like it hasn’t fully rolled out yet, but you can get there from here: http://www.google.com/landing/music/

By: David Jennings

David Jennings — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:47:10 +0000

Repeat Paul’s mantra after me, “search is not discovery, search is not discovery”…. However… being able to share songs is a key currency in discovery. Good sharers will love to be able to pass on a song as easily as a URL (which you can do with Spotify or We7 in the UK, and I guess with Rhapsody, LaLa and other services in the US). However, lazy or forgetful sharers often don’t get round to providing the URL. For those cases, being able to punch the track title into Google and hear it is the next best thing for the recipient. (I’m assuming that’s how this OneBox works from the screengrab — can’t actually use it myself as I’m not in the US.) So search is part of the underpinning infrastructure of social discovery.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:16:28 +0000

Brian: Also, the PR around the google event talks quite a bit about music discovery – such as this quote: “If you think about music discovery today, the vast majority begins with a Google search,” said Lala co-founder – as seen in http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gsYy4yYhE-YWK6i60yzIwP4HyRMwD9BKCVHO0

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:56:13 +0000

Brian: Google news has a recommendation component that is quite popular.

By: brian

brian — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:45:52 +0000

Not to overly defend our google friends, but it’s a first step. I think it fits well with their mission and simplicity — it’s not like they pop up a big box with “if you search for this weird rash, you may also like this other weird rash” when you’re using normal google search. Other than google reader and adwords (and the inherited youtube) what discovery does google use overall?

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:03:10 +0000

Thanks Hal – I’ve added a link to the register article.

By: Hal Halvorsen

Hal Halvorsen — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:19:28 +0000

That Google thing is a damp squib.

The Register nailed it:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/22/google_facebook_music_widget_fail/