Utah People's Post

The Latest News from the Beehive State

Thursday, April 22, 2021
Log in
  • National News
    • Female Caseworker Killed & Doctor Shot in Philadelphia
  • State News
    • Car Chase Leads to Drug Arrest
  • Tech & Science
  • Health
    • How to Prepare For Ticks Season
    • Magical Weight Loss Bean Scam
  • Sports
  • Business
You are here: Home / Technology / Google Adds Lyrics-Finding Feature to Search Results

Google Adds Lyrics-Finding Feature to Search Results

December 24, 2014 Posted by Contributor

Google Adds Lyrics-Finding Feature to Search Results

Google launched last week a new feature for the search engine that displays the lyrics of a song when searching for its title followed by “lyrics”. It seems that the move was designed to boost Google Play’s sales because if you want to see “full lyrics” you will have to click the Google Play link where you will be lured into buying the song or subscribe to an all-access service.

The tech company also hopes that the new lyrics-finding feature would redirect important traffic from popular third-party sites such as azlyrics.com, metrolyrics.com or lyricsfreak.com to its on-line music store. These sites compete with Google’s sponsored links thorough their high SEO ranking.

Google’s move is very similar to what Microsoft did two months ago when it upgraded Bing search engine to display song lyrics on top of search results in an attempt of competing with Google’s “Knowledge Graph.”

Knowledge Graph is an update for Google search engine launched in early 2012 that displays an infobox located on the right side of Google’s search result page. This infobox contains additional information on the subject searched gathered from Google’s favorite sites such as Wikipedia, Google Books, Freebase and more.

Now, Knowledge graph would also display song lyrics when searching for a song title.

The lyrics finding update occurred last week for only for the U.S. Google users, but the feature has undergone beta testing a few months ago.

However, beta testers learned that not all songs had their lyrics displayed by Google. Many popular songs were not included in the lyrics-display feature. Testers said that Google might work with a limited database for the moment.

Third-party sites that host lyrics-related content said that the new feature would affect greatly the industry since most of the web traffic would get redirected to Google’s store. Also, it seems that many sites that rely mainly on SEO traffic to get on top of search results would go away, if Google adds lyrics-finding feature to all known songs.

However, many sites also build community around the lyrics, which Google won’t replace. Sites like SongMeanings and MetroLyrics are more than just SEO farms; I expect they’ll continue to post impressive traffic numbers,”

Darryl Ballantyne, the CEO of a company that licenses lyrics to third-party sites such as Pandora and Shazam, recently said.

Also, this isn’t the first time Google tries to shut down third-party lyrics sites. Last year, it penalized the Rap Genius site for using fraudulent SEO techniques to increase rapidly its page rank and get a high position on the search results page.

Image Source: Farotech

Share this:

  • Tweet
  • Share on Tumblr
  • Email

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: azlyrics.com, Google adds lyrics-finding feature, Google displays lyrics, Google Play music store, Google updates search engine, lyrics-finding feature, lyricsfreak.com, metrolyrics.com

Woman working out at the gym

Just 23% of Americans Are Working Out Enough in Their Spare Time

June 29, 2018 By Amelia Donovan

Poliovirus Therapy Gives Brain Cancer Patients New Hope (Study)

June 29, 2018 By Amelia Donovan

United Airlines airplane

Passenger Mysteriously Dies on United Airlines flight Bound for Boston

June 28, 2018 By Amelia Donovan

Breakfast sandwich

Here Are Some Foods No Nutritionist Would Ever Eat

June 27, 2018 By Amelia Donovan

Poppy flower

UN Warns of Surge in Opium-based Drugs and Cocaine Supply

June 27, 2018 By Amelia Donovan

U.S.-Canada border

French Jogger Detained 2 Weeks for Accidentally Crossing Border

June 26, 2018 By Amelia Donovan

Plus size model

Normalizing Plus Size Could Fuel Obesity Crisis (Study)

June 25, 2018 By Amelia Donovan

Giant manta ray

Unique Manta Ray Nursery Spotted off Texas Coast

June 23, 2018 By Amelia Donovan

The rainbow flag

WHO Scraps Transgenderism from List of Mental Illnesses

June 22, 2018 By Amelia Donovan

456 People Dead at U.K. Hospital after Taking too Many Painkillers

June 21, 2018 By Amelia Donovan

Kenyan girls dancing

Kenyans Facing Poor Nutrition as Supermarket Shopping Is on the Rise

June 20, 2018 By Amelia Donovan

Pages

  • About
  • Contact
  • Privacy Policy GDPR
  • Staff
  • Terms and Conditions

Recent Posts

  • Just 23% of Americans Are Working Out Enough in Their Spare Time
  • Poliovirus Therapy Gives Brain Cancer Patients New Hope (Study)
  • Passenger Mysteriously Dies on United Airlines flight Bound for Boston
  • Here Are Some Foods No Nutritionist Would Ever Eat
  • UN Warns of Surge in Opium-based Drugs and Cocaine Supply
  • French Jogger Detained 2 Weeks for Accidentally Crossing Border
  • Normalizing Plus Size Could Fuel Obesity Crisis (Study)

Related Articles

  • Vintage radio

    Samsung Equipping Its Smartphones with Active FM Chips

    Jan 14, 2018
  • Apple Watch user

    Apple Is Officially the World’s Largest Wearable Producer

    Nov 16, 2017
  • Overwatch logo on a black background

    Hundreds of Chinese Players Get Banned from Playing Overwatch

    Nov 5, 2017
  • Captcha test displaying a series of letters

    Advanced AI System Manages to Fool Captcha Tests and Pass as Human

    Oct 28, 2017
  • Facebook app on a black phone

    Publishers Worldwide Are Afraid of Facebook’s News Feed Experiment

    Oct 25, 2017
  • Woman writing texts on an iPhone

    Japanese Company Sues Apple for the Animoji Trademark

    Oct 22, 2017
  • Teenagers looking at their smartphones

    Facebook Acquires the Teen Favorite App Tbh

    Oct 18, 2017
  • Mark Zuckerberg talking at a conference

    Zuckerberg Apologizes for the VR Video about Puerto Rico

    Oct 12, 2017
  • Presentation of Adblock Plus

    Malicious Developers Tricked Thousands of People with a Fake Adblock Plus Extension

    Oct 11, 2017
  • Master Chief jumping in a cave

    Microsoft Hides Clever Easter Egg Inside the Xbox One X Console

    Oct 8, 2017

Categories

  • Business
  • Entertainment
  • Health
  • National News
  • Nature
  • Provo
  • Salt Lake News
  • Science
  • Sports
  • State News
  • Tech & Science
  • Technology
  • Uncategorized
  • West Jordan
  • West Valley City
  • World

Copyright © 2021 utahpeoplespost.com

About · Privacy Policy · Terms of Use · Site Map · Contact

loading Cancel
Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
Email check failed, please try again
Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.