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Enhanced Google Music Search

I have talked in the past about the way privileged markets are created for certain types of content, favouring commercial content partners over open access non-commercial content. Google today brings us a case in point: its music search. Go ahead, try it out, put anything in the search field. Then try to navigate through the search results to find a link that is (a) not Google, and (b) not an online store like Amazon. It's a closed system; if you search in Google music search you will be on the Google merry-go-round forever until you cave and go to a music store. Fan sites, independent music, Creative Commons content (not to mention Pirate Bay)? Forget it. Alex Chitu, Google Operating System, October 22, 2009. [Link] [Tags: Google, Open Access] [Previous][Next]

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Re: Enhanced Google Music Search

jerhiebert, October 23, 2009

Enhanced? What a crock. I seem to remember a time when you could do an advanced google search for .mp3 extensions...although I don't think it lasted long. Alta Vista tried it too for a while as a sort of last gasp to be relevant. But I guess the RIAA and their minions have made it uncomfortable enough for the search engines that they've had to give up offering search results for things that:
a) exist on the web
b) people are looking for [Comment] [Permalink] [Previous][Next]

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