>> A query for the lyrics to a specific song will pull up the words to much of that song
"Much"? Why not "ALL"?
>> LyricFinder Chief Executive and co-founder Darryl Ballantyne projects publishers and songwriters seeing "millions" of dollars in additional revenue from this arrangement.
I was wondering how these "millions" might be made. I had to RTFA to find out that every time a lyric is displayed, someone gets paid.
So it seems simply typing something like "streets have no name" into Google will mean some twat who wears sunglasses indoors when it's not sunny gets paid some money. I guess it starts with LyricFinder, who collect a small amount from Google. They take their cut and pass on a small amount to , who takes their cut and passes on a small amount to . So it goes on, several dozen
>> I'm wondering what Google's revenue stream is here
Same as it ever was: ads. However, not instead of individual lyrics sites getting a portion of the ad click-dollars, Google gets the whole payment instead.
"Much" (Score:2)
"Much"? Why not "ALL"?
>> LyricFinder Chief Executive and co-founder Darryl Ballantyne projects publishers and songwriters seeing "millions" of dollars in additional revenue from this arrangement.
Well...at least one of those two groups, right?
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I was wondering how these "millions" might be made. I had to RTFA to find out that every time a lyric is displayed, someone gets paid.
So it seems simply typing something like "streets have no name" into Google will mean some twat who wears sunglasses indoors when it's not sunny gets paid some money. I guess it starts with LyricFinder, who collect a small amount from Google. They take their cut and pass on a small amount to , who takes their cut and passes on a small amount to . So it goes on, several dozen
Re:"Much" (Score:2)
Same as it ever was: ads. However, not instead of individual lyrics sites getting a portion of the ad click-dollars, Google gets the whole payment instead.