Filed under: Web services, Google
Google adds music search features
Apparently unbowed by recent moves by the music-publishing industry to go after companies that make it easier to find lyrics on the web, Google plans to make music info more readily available via searches. The new feature, set to debut today, will work much like Google's existing system for searching for stock quotes or news from within its core engine, bumping relevant info to the top of a list of search results. Results will include official sites for groups, sites that legally sell music and, yes, sites that offer lyrics and sheet music. So, music publishers, are you ready to take on Google, or are you going to keep on just bullying the little guys (or how about just packing it in and recognizing that there's nothing illegal about helping people find info that's already out there on the net)?
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
