Google OneBox Music Search Launches In The US

by Yuliya Talmazan | October 29, 2009 at 12:16 pm

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Google announced the launch of its OneBox Music Search on its blog yesterday. What it means is that Google is trying to tap into yet another niche market. Evidently, Google sees opportunity in people's interest in identifying the music they have heard somewhere and want to know more about.

Google OneBox allows to stream songs directly from Google's results page. The songs will be displayed in a separate box apart from other search results. Music content will come from the integration of music services Lala and iLike, where users would be able to buy the music that they are looking for. Music search will be serviced by Gracenote that helps identify songs based on lyrics. OneBox will also link to video clips and other songs from the same artist (kind of like Amazon.com). The service is only available in the US so far, where it is still being rolled out.

Here is what Google itself had to say about OneBox:

According to Insights for Search, two of the top 10 queries in the U.S. are music-related. But often, if your answer is in a song, it can take a while to get there. We call this "time to result" — and we're always looking for ways to reduce it.

Today, we're rolling out a search feature that does just that by enabling you to search and more easily discover millions of songs, all via a simple Google web search.