Yahoo! Launches Music Search
August 4th, 2005
Yahoo! is to test a new search engine dedicated to all things music. The search engine will index content on various online music stores, including Apple’s iTunes and Real Networks’ Rhapsody, as well as Yahoo!’s own service. It will also index music files stored outside of the music publisher sanctioned services, so there will be a fair amount of illegally copied material there to be searched. Yahoo! skip past this issue by saying that they will rely on music publishers to ask for the removal of illegal content from the index, although how this will wash with the like of Sony (who seem to be increasing litigious) is anyone’s guess.
The music itself will be supplemented with content about the music and bands, so a search for ‘Oasis’ will pull up results about the band itself, discographies, latest news and links to where you can buy tracks. Yahoo! will earn commission on any sales through partner sites, but they claim to see the new search engine more as a tool for creating loyal Yahoo! users than as a direct revenue generator.
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