Google has added a music section to its massive search index, in an effort to give consumers a more direct route to music related pages. Google's Director of Web Products Marissa Mayer said the music
section addresses "a deficiency in our Web search." The new section is similar in concept to its other sections that provide more specific information about certain topics like airline information,
news, movies and weather. Google's music section will contain artist, album, and song info, and provide links to sites where the songs can be legally downloaded. Google will not be creating its own
music library, nor will it seek money for referrals, monetizing the section the way it monetizes everything else: through sponsored listings appearing in the margins of its results.
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