Except that the service is only slowly rolling out in the US only, what else is new? Nothing really as no extra info that we didn’t already know about Google Music has been made available with the launch of the search service. That is if you don’t count the fact that only people from the US can access it. Outside the US you can reach this website: www.google.com/landing/music/ . But that’s it as queries are directed to the normal Google search results. Notice the very correct baseline: “One click to preview, and, with an account from one of our partners, one click to buy”.
One thing is sure, if this service meets the expectations, MySpace has made its first golden deal since bending over Google for 900 million dollar of Adsense money. The biggest loosers are Facebook, (ex-iLike shareholder) Ticketmaster and actually also eBay who let the opportunity to acquire iLike slip away, with eBay being outright disinterested. iLike was sold for ‘only’ $20 million in August to MySpace. Peanuts compared to the profit the service should be generating in the near future. Good to know, MySpace made an offer to iLike being completely unaware of the pending Google deal.
For Ticketmaster this might well mean the launch of a competitor as MySpace plans to extend its tentacles completely allover the music business with tickets being the next possible step.
October 31st, 2009 at 11:08 am
yes, facebook clearly won over myspace. see your button above.
so ms cooperates with ilike. $20 million? only?
where’s last.fm?
ah, they dont cooperate with myspace. rip.