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Hands-on: Google music streams useful, not revolutionary

// October 29th, 2009 // Tech News

As expected , Google announced Wednesday that it was indeed adding music streams to its search results thanks to a partnership with Lala, iLike, Rhapsody, and imeem. The search giant has struck licensing deals with EMI, Universal, Warner Music, and Sony Music to bring streams of popular music to the search page via the streaming partners, while the likes of iLike and Lala will be bringing their collection of independent artists as well. Now, whenever you search for a musical artist, a song, or even a lyric (thanks to Gracenote), Google will include streams right there in your search results along with links to the other services. We decided to give this new feature a run-through to see just what it could handle, and came away (mostly) liking what we saw.