If you're always forgetting the lyrics to your favourite songs, Google has your back. It's just introduced a new feature that shows song lyrics within search results.
It's the result of a partnership with Toronto based company LyricFind, a lyrics licensing company founded in 2004.
This also means that artists may eventually see revenue from people searching for their lyrics. LyricFind co-founder Darryl Ballantyne told Billboard that royalties are paid "based on the number of times a lyric is viewed. The more it's viewed, the more publishers get paid."
"It should be a significant revenue stream," he said. "I can’t get into the rates, but we expect it to be millions of dollars generated for publishers and songwriters as a result of this."
At present the feature only appears to be working on Google.com web searches, rather than Google.co.uk results.
It's part of Knowledge Graph, Google's search algorithm.
The tool is a database of information that Google trusts and underpins search results. The Knowledge Graph powers cards that appear on the right-hand side of Google searches and show information that may directly answer what has been queried.
On June 21 Google said it was expanding its search results for medical symptoms to include "related conditions".
"Health content on the web can be difficult to navigate, and tends to lead people from mild symptoms to scary and unlikely conditions, which can cause unnecessary anxiety and stress," the company said in a blog post at the time.
This article was originally published by WIRED UK
