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May 22, 2006

Google Adds /Music To Robots.txt File: Google Music Coming Soon?

Garett Rogers discovers that Google just changed their robots.txt file to include Disallow: /music. That suggests that Google is ready to launch a music portal, of some sort soon. Gary Price has been speculating about Google Music for over a year now.

And here are three links to the most recent evidence of a Google Music launch.
+ More Evidence of Google Music Download Service
+ Google To Host Roundtable For Top Music Industry Executives
+ Google Hiring Google Audio Employees

Postscript: Hitwise has some stats showing the percentage of people who leave Google for music sites (about 3 percent).

Posted by Barry Schwartz at May 22, 2006 8:56 AM