Just recive information about new Google music search service:
Google has introduced a new feature that provides information about music and musical artists in response to music related search queries.

The new feature works directly from any Google web search form, and results are returned as “one box” results at the top of the search result page next to a musical notes icon. As with other types of “one box” results, which can be triggered when searching for news, products, images and so on, music results are displayed when Google determines that a query might be related to a band or artist name, a song name, album or song lyrics.

“When we did log analysis, we found a surprising number of users doing queries on Google for music,” said Marissa Mayer, Google Product Manager.

Results include links to more information on the web, as well as links to sources where you can purchase music. These links include online sources, such as Apple, Real and eMusic, as well as retailers selling CDs, including Amazon, WalMart and others. For the CD retailers, Google has access to inventory feeds and only returns a link to a store if items are in stock.

Google has no financial relationship with the sellers of music. Placement in search results is determined by a combination of the retailer’s page rank and other relevance factors, as well as an element of “randomness” to ensure “fairness,” according to Mayer.

Beneath these links are links to Google hosted pages that include things like album artwork and track listings, band information, user reviews and other information. Google gets some of this information from undisclosed third party providers, and some from crawling the web.

Google is late to the game with music search results—Ask Jeeves, MSN and Yahoo have all offered similar features for some time. Here’s a look at what’s available elsewhere.
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link to this new search service is http://www.google.com/musicsearch

It looks like Google will start search in my and yours wardrobe. My top keyword will be “paired socks”. What yours? ;)