p2p news / p2pnet: Google has finally decided to refine its search engine so it’ll be better able to handle a service a lot of p2p applications have been managing successfully for years – find the music.

“One of the things Google wasn’t good at that consumers wanted was music,” the Washington Post has Marissa Mayer, vp for search products and user experience saying in the understatement of the year.

And because a huge number of users’ searches fall into the music category, Google decided to alter its engine to serve up results, she said.

“It makes a tremendous amount of sense; this is an extension of [Google’s] search capabilities” and will be a natural place for consumers to look when they’re trying to think of songs or shop for music, said Mike McGuire, research director for Gartner Inc. “It gets people to move from CDs to online.”

This, and similar mainstream media stories based on Google’s upgrade, will also help the members of the Bog Four Organized Music cartel to continue to maintain the fiction that a ‘healthy’ corporate online music service exists.

“In addition to music, Google has created a catalogue of maps, books, videos, images and blogs,” says the story. “The company said it will not directly profit from the new service but will post advertisements along with search results. Google will start with artists popular in the United States and expand its library over time.”

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Washington Post - Google Trying to Make Music Searches Smoother, December 16, 2005

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