Google Music Rocks..or Does It?

By Mark Evans
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews

Is there a limit to Google’s search agenda? Just before the crucial holiday CD sales-buying bonanza, we have the launch of Google Music search. Type in an artist - e.g. Lyle Lovett - and you get their CDs and quick access to news, photographs, Web sites and, of course, places to buy the music. Is Google late to the music game as Don Dodge implies? Maybe, but what makes Google Music so compelling is the clean interface without a lot of distracting bells and whistles, and the simple fact it works quickly. Google Music search is no allmusic.com, which provides extensive information (some of it user-driven), but Google Music doesn’t have to be all-things-to-all-people to become widely used. With an army of PhDs, it never ceases to amaze me how Google’s is working to extend its reach into new services and markets.

We Say: Bring it on! If Google wants to offer another free service that is easy to use and useful, there will be no complaints from me.

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