Google playing with music search again?
I’d almost forgotten that Google has a search operator “music:” that when put in front of a query will bring up information about the artists, songs and albums you’re searching for.
However, what did surprise me today, was getting the same results as searching for “music: Nickelback” simply by searching for Nickelback on Google.com.
Check out the screen shots below to see what I mean.
1. The results I normally when I search from Google.com just for “nickelback” (click on the image for a larger view).
2. The results I get when I search on Google.com with the operator “music: nickelback” (click on the image for a larger view).
3. The results I got earlier today using just “nickelback” from Google.com (click on the image for a larger view).
As you can see searches 2 and 3 show identical results even thought the search query URLs are very different!.
So, is Google trying something new with their music search? We know they have rolled out free music links to users in China, might we see the same or something similar in Europe or the US? Doubtful, but we can hope 
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Good to know about this (let’s call it “gMusic”) search
@ppmartin “gMusic”? I like that. Much better than “Goosic” – LOL