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AppScout: Google Partners With MySpace, Lala, Others for Music Search
TechCrunch: Google Music: What Were Ticketmaster And Facebook Thinking?
| RT Google to include in search results music clips from Myspace, Pandora, Rhapsody etc http://bit.ly/hn7RQ 10/29/2009 |
| Google Music Search Launches with MySpace, Lala: http://bit.ly/3vAxnV via @addthis 10/29/2009 |
| [Google] Google Music Search Launches with MySpace, Lala, Pandora. imeem and Rhapsody http://bit.ly/187REh (via @PCMag) 10/29/2009 |
Google Partners With MySpace, Lala, Others for Music Search
AppScout —
... with multiple partners rather than just one, Pittman said that each partner had their own strengths, and some services had music that others did not.
"In cases where they overlap, we're sharing the traffic between them and it's very much even and it will allow you to do a full-song play from either partner, so you'll have a full parity," he said.
MySpace got involved in the project via iLike, a streaming music service it acquired in August.
Get the rest of this story on pcmag.com. ...
Google Music: What Were Ticketmaster And Facebook Thinking?
TechCrunch —
... And what’s worse is that MySpace now controls all that traffic. MySpace actually has a much more complete worldwide database of concert events than even Ticketmaster has, and they already flow through a lot of traffic to ticket sales at Ticketmaster and competitors. Now that database is combined with iLike’s impressive concert discovery and alert product. When you plug Google search traffic into all of that, it’s got to be scary for Ticketmaster: ...
Lala iPhone App: Unlimited Streaming for 10 Cents Per Song
AppScout —
... Lala has had a busy week. In addition to partnering with Google for its new Discover Music search Wednesday, the streaming music site submitted its first iPhone app to Apple on Monday. ...
Rumor: MySpace to Acquire imeem
AppScout —
... Last month, MySpace and iLike joined Google's music discovery service—as did imeem. The offering is a music-search feature that will include in Google search results streaming music clips from partners like MySpace, Lala, Pandora, imeem, and Rhapsody. ...







