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Google today launched a new service - Google Music - that serves up links to song lyrics, music artists and CD titles on the search results page, writes CNET. Users who search on the name of a band, artist, album or song in the main Google search bar will get results that appear at the top; a click on that takes them to music search results, including links to additional Google pages with names of tracks and CDs that a band or artist has released; snippets of reviews on websites and links to those sites; and links to various sites that sell the music.

"We aren't building out a music store," said Marissa Mayer, vice president of search products and user experience at Google. "We are getting people to the iTunes store" - and others.

Ostensibly, Google is making money via users' clicking through those links and a portion of revenue or fee from any resulting sales.