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What a shame that the mentioned lyrics sites like these are going to lose traffic:

* http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/ledzeppelin/stairwaytoheaven....

* http://www.songlyrics.com/led-zeppelin/stairway-to-heaven-ly...

Slow loading and each sporting giant ads that pop from the side of the screen and cover up the lyrics.

Compare to Google's fast, minimal version: https://play.google.com/music/preview/Thhet5jtvzdxkti7vc62o2...

Good job Google.

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Well, in New Zealand that link gets "Lyrics not available", so I wouldn't consider it an improvement.

This feature doesn't appear to be in AU/NZ search results yet.

Maybe there's a copyright issue at play here.

Finland too. Might be US-only?

Anyone could have created a lyrics site like Google's, except for the cost of licensing the lyrics.

I wonder if Google negotiated terms with the record companies, or they are simply able to pay the licensing cost with profits from Google Play.

There are other ways to license lyrics:

http://www.lyricfind.com/services/lyrics-for-free/

"What’s the catch, you ask? Simply place LyricFind’s ad code on pages containing LyricFind content. Let us monetize the pages and worry about meeting the licensing costs"

Interesting.

On my machine your Google link was significantly slower than the other two.

it is not all about speed in this case. the Google version has no features, you cannot discuss the song, and no other web 2.0 type of features.

which actually kind of surprises me that Google wouldn't take this opportunity to inject some kind of Google+ comment box within each lyric, so that users can comment on each song.

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