| In today's world, many people turn to | | | | drawbacks to their music lyrics system. |
| the internet to find information about | | | | Part of the deal agreed upon by Yahoo |
| any subject that one may think about. | | | | and various record labels include the |
| One subject that is increasing in | | | | requirement for all lyrics to be in |
| popularity is searching for full music | | | | picture format versus pure text. This |
| lyrics to all and any genres of songs. | | | | is mainly to prevent users from copying |
| This is fairly simple to accomplish with | | | | and pasting the text of lyrics and to |
| a simple search in Google, but some | | | | prevent online robots from crawling |
| people worry that in the very near | | | | their webpage with the sole intent to |
| future, this may or may not be changing. | | | | steal the text of the lyrics. This also |
| Yahoo recently announced a new feature | | | | has a drawback, as mentioned above. |
| that would allow users to search music | | | | Since the lyrics are in picture format, |
| lyrics from their site. Yahoo has | | | | search engines will not be able to see |
| obtained licensing for tons of artists | | | | the text in the lyrics, and searches |
| from many different record labels. In | | | | where users enter a verse from their |
| exchange for the allowed use of the | | | | favorite song will not return a result |
| music lyrics, Yahoo provides a portion | | | | from Yahoo's system. |
| of all advertising revenue gained from | | | | Yahoo's music lyrics search also suffers |
| the site to the artists and record | | | | from the fact that the "typical" |
| labels. | | | | internet user just doesn't know about |
| Some owners of other music lyrics | | | | it. With Google being the current king |
| websites have worried that Yahoo's new | | | | of search engines, a good portion of |
| system will take away a large portion of | | | | internet users have no idea that Yahoo |
| their site's traffic. One website I | | | | offers such a system. These users will |
| contacted even suggested that they would | | | | continue to search for music lyrics as |
| have to take an additional approach, | | | | they always have in the past, through a |
| such as offering a new mobile-based | | | | typical Google search. This, coupled |
| lyrics system for cell-phone users, in | | | | with the fact that 90% of search engine |
| response to the loss of advertising | | | | traffic comes from Google, will mean |
| revenue due to Yahoo's new music lyrics | | | | that although Yahoo's system is a nice |
| system. Additionally, some lyrics | | | | approach, many online music lyrics |
| websites are disallowed from posting | | | | websites will not be as heavily hit as |
| lyrics to certain artists or bands due | | | | some once thought after Yahoo's |
| to copyright issues. Yahoo's system is | | | | announcement. One thing is for certain: |
| an attempt to get around this problem | | | | unless Yahoo takes over as the king of |
| and offers music lyrics to any song the | | | | search engines, most users will continue |
| user would want to search for. | | | | to find music lyrics online in the same |
| While Yahoo's approach is an elegant | | | | fashion they have used in the past, |
| solution, there are still a couple of | | | | through Google. |