A new music search tool has been launched by Google, in conjunction with social networking website MySpace and streaming service Lala.
The tool allows web users to search and more easily find millions of songs, all via a typical Google web search.
The official blog for the search engine reveals that the service was created in order to reduce what the search industry describes as "time to result".
"Now, when you enter a music-related query, like the name of a song, artist or album, your search results will include links to an audio preview of those songs provided by our music search partners MySpace ... or Lala," the blog adds.
Clicking on the result will give people the chance to listen to an audio preview of the song courtesy of one of the aforementioned music services.
And with MySpace having acquired iLike in recent times, there will be an even greater online record collection to discover.
The social networking website's multi-million dollar purchase of iLike occurred in August and led a number of industry observers to question how Facebook could let its most popular music application become the property of one of its main competitors.
