Yahoo's New Music Lyrics System

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