{"id":4873,"date":"2014-12-29T08:11:19","date_gmt":"2014-12-29T08:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/12\/29\/google-publishes-song-lyrics-online\/"},"modified":"2014-12-29T08:11:19","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T08:11:19","slug":"google-publishes-song-lyrics-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2014\/12\/29\/google-publishes-song-lyrics-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Google publishes song lyrics online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\" u-underline\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/d\/d4\/Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_Movie_Trailer_Screenshot_%2836%29.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"218\" height=\"163\" \/><br \/>Google<\/span> is getting into publishing song lyrics online. The world\u2019s most popular search engine has apparently hired staff to transcribe and catalogue lyrics, in order to provide this information to users searching for the words to their favourite songs.According to reports, <span class=\" u-underline\">Google has begun including lyrics in the results pages<\/span> for certain search terms . When US-based users search for phrases like \u201cstairway to heaven lyrics\u201d or \u201ccomfortably numb lyrics\u201d, the words to these songs appear at the top of the page, above the corresponding listings for third-party sources.  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a move that pits Google against hundreds of popular websites offering lyrics to thousands of songs. Companies like Genius (formerly Rap Genius) and Metro Lyrics have spent millions to develop their libraries of lyrics, and many of these sites <span class=\" u-underline\">rely on search engines<\/span> for the bulk of their web traffic.<\/p>\n<p>Google hase been coy about its plans for this feature. <span class=\" u-underline\">Contacted by Business Insider<\/span>, a spokesperson cryptically alluded to Stairway to Heaven: \u201cThere\u2019s a feeling you get when you turn to a song and you know that the words have two meanings,\u201d they said. \u201cWell it\u2019s whispered that now if you go search the tune, maybe Google will lead you to reason. Ooh, it makes you wonder.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But <span class=\" u-underline\">Billboard reports that this scheme has been long in the works<\/span>. \u201cThey\u2019ve done direct licensing deals with the major publishers to enable the service, and they\u2019re doing it internally at the moment,\u201d an unnamed source told the magazine. \u201cThe data isn\u2019t crowd-sourced; there\u2019s a team of people working to create the database.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For now, Google\u2019s prospective competitors are trying to remain calm. \u201cWe\u2019re happy to see Google take an interest in improving lyrics online,\u201d Genius co-founder<span class=\" u-underline\"> Tom Lehman told Business Insider<\/span>. \u201cWe\u2019d love to collaborate with them to create the best lyric experience the internet has ever seen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is getting into publishing song lyrics online. The world\u2019s most popular search engine has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}