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November 02, 2009

'Google Music and the New Payola'...

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Music Power Network:

I don’t know, I could be wrong about this, but something is not right. Google has finally entered the music space with it’s One Box music search feature in brilliant fashion, well position to become the new radio – complete with behind the scenes deals and major label cronyism.

Google is now going to serve up links to songs from major online retailers at the top of it’s search page, whenever you search on a song name, or artist name, or lyric. It will let you play the song once, and then take you to an option to purchase the song or subscribe to a major music service. The other search results are pushed down the page. Except for the ads, of course.



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