{"id":119,"date":"2005-12-15T22:57:50","date_gmt":"2005-12-16T03:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/index.php\/2005\/12\/15\/google-music-whats-the-big-deal\/"},"modified":"2005-12-15T22:57:50","modified_gmt":"2005-12-16T03:57:50","slug":"google-music-whats-the-big-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2005\/12\/15\/google-music-whats-the-big-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Music — what’s the big deal?"},"content":{"rendered":"

With all the attention Google has gotten for its new music search<\/a>, you would think the company was going to compete with iTunes.com, or Napster.com — or that Larry and Sergey had set up their own music label. It isn’t the Google Music Store that some have been talking about<\/a>, and you can’t even click on a link and listen to a streaming web clip of a song. So Google searches for things and then links to them — what’s the big deal about that?<\/p>\n

Maybe at some point Google will be able to index audio files and link to them — although that would no doubt become a legal quagmire. Mike over at TechDirt is already speculating about the existing music search getting the company in trouble<\/a> because it links to lyrics, and the RIAA<\/strike> a music publisher just finished shutting down PearLyrics.com (although there is some reason for hope there<\/a>, apparently — more details here<\/a>). In any case, Google Music seems a little thin to be getting so excited about.<\/p>\n

Apparently I’m in good company. Fred Wilson of A VC<\/a> doesn’t think much of it either (Fred, I tried to link to your post directly but the link didn’t work).<\/p>\n

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With all the attention Google has gotten for its new music search, you would think the company was going to compete with iTunes.com, or Napster.com — or that Larry and Sergey had set up their own music label. It isn’t the Google Music Store that some have been talking about, and you can’t even click … <\/p>\n

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