Let the Music Begin! Google Makes Search Musical

There you go, what has been buzzing around for the couple of days is now finally official. Google has just rolled a new search feature for discovering millions of songs via the same simple Google music search interface.

So now every music-related query that you do on Google’s music search will give you search results with links to an audio preview those songs. This is made possible through Google’s collaboration with major online music players MySpace, iLike and Lala.  The feature will let you preview the song right on the Google SERPs.  Links for purchasing the songs are also provided through MySpace and Lala.

Aside from this, if you don’t know the specific details of a particular song, the Google music search feature will link you to relevant information found on Google’s music content partners – Lala, Pandora, and Rhapsody.  You just need to enter some lines in the lyrics of a song and Google will help you find that song. Google will index these sites and provide you with results related to your music-related query that are linked to the contents on those three sites.

Google’s music search feature will be rolled gradually in the U.S. International users will have access to the same search feature later on. More details plus a demo vide can be found here.

Google Monkey Splits Google SERPS into Columns

 I have shared quite a few methods to tweak Google search results page: we know already how to remove redirects from Google SERPs, or how to add a sidebar to Google search which allows to see more relevant information.

And here’s another way to make even more of Google SERPs: see more Google results at a glance as well as preview target pages. Google Monkey is one of possible ways to do that. That’s a Greasemoneky script that has quite a few cool features worth checking out.

The script allows you to add the following features to Google SERPs:

• Sort search results into columns (up to 4 columns);
• Number results;
• Open results in a new tab;
• For each result show the domain favicon or thumbnail (or both).

Additionally you can also:

• Remove "Related searches" and "AdWords" results;
• Auto load more results;
• Hide the Google web search dialogs (if you use the Google toolbar instead);
• Set the background color;

Also, you can customize all settings via the handy dialog (accessed via the link in the top right corner of the SERPs):