Last week Google launched the Music Onebox — a special new music search product that lets users stream songs in their entirety for free. Today, Yahoo Video is answering by improving its music video search offering. When you search for a song or artists, Yahoo will extract music videos of the most popular songs and albums for that artists or band. It appears that most of the songs are pulled from YouTube, Last.fm and other music sites.
So a search for U2 on Yahoo Video will show a list of the band’s albums, such as The Joshua Tree, and the music videos for popular songs, such as “Beautiful Day.” When you click on an album, you’ll see the music videos for all of the songs on the album. If you click on an album or song, it will show videos for the album or song in an overlay page.
Yahoo also recently made a similar upgrade to its image search, when it rolled out a travel image refiner.
The title should really be: Google Has Music Search. Yahoo Responds By Sending Google More Traffic.
I was just thinking that.
How does this really help them?
title should be “google has an affiliiate link program where they give myspace priority because they paid google to be on page 1 for song search results.”
Yahoo has had music search since 2008. Not that it matters.
It’s like search.yahoo.com redirecting to google.com !!
Yahoo! has been offering music search like Google OneBox for nearly three years now…just saying…
What about having iTunes in my search results (Movies, Music, Podcasts) when relevant – instead of generic music results (or lala)?
kikin just launched that.
@Nick
Looks like if you hit the “Play Now” button within the video, it plays within the Yahoo search page. If you hit the YouTube link, then it goes to YouTube.
haa, haa, microsoft playing durty,,,
but they pwn them selves by giving youtube more traffic…
lets see what google does, wonder if they could just extract the song from videos??
and pay the fkn owners…
Not seeing the google music search results here in Spain…
This is absolutely incorrect information. KUDOS to Leena.
Yahoo offers refinement options which you see on the left bar, clicking on which will simply search the web for videos of that category. It just so happens that a large percentage of those videos are hosted on youtube(if that is indeed where you got the idea that Yahoo sends its traffic to google from)..
If you really thought that Yahoo search could/would just redirect its queries to google aka turn into a meta search engine and falsely call themselves real search, you should truly start considering different career options, because those things do not happen. Unless ofcourse Google falls asleep and doesnt mind selling out their search capabilities under Y!’s name for free..