Epicenter (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
... , and today, at the SF MusicTech Summit in San Francisco, Google director of project management RJ Pittman offered a closer look at what the company has in mind. In keeping with the corporate goal of “organizing all the world’s information and making it universally accessible,” Google Music Search affords one-click access to free streams delivered by its partners, conveniently linked in...
The Official Google Blog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
... read more, check out the blogposts on Lala and MySpace . We hope you enjoy the music. Posted by R.J. Pittman, Director, Product Management
Boston Herald (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
“This is about music search and music discovery,” Google’s product management director R.J. Pittman said. “In typical Google fashion, we indexed things and provided links for searches. Our partners provide the music in a number of different ways. We felt it was important that users had choice and that’s what we’ve given them.”
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
TechCrunch writer Jason Kincaid traveled down to Los Angeles earlier today to cover the launch of Google Music Onebox . In addition to his live notes from the event and the panel , he managed to point his camera at just about everyone involved in the new service: Google Director Product Management Search R.J. Pittman , MySpace Music President Courtney Holt and LaLa founder Bill Nguyen...
Silicon Valley Watcher (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
... or sample millions of songs online. ..."We're not in the music business per se," said R.J. Pittman, Google's director of product for the music search project. "We don't license the music nor sell the music directly on Google. We are merely a music search feature." Experian Hitwise , which tracks Internet traffic, says that music is a popular search term. Hitwise...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
... major and indie record labels, will receive top positioning on the search engine's query pages.R.J. Pittman, Google's director of product management, said the objective of the new initiative is "making search better by helping you search and discover music in a way that's good for consumers, artists, music labels and publishers. If it sounds simple and obvious, then we've achieved...
PC Mag (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
... Angeles press event that was webcast.Google will not earn any revenue from the sale of MP3's, said R.J. Pittman, product manager for the music service at Google."This is pushing search traffic and business opportunities downstream to online partners and artists and labels, so we're happy to … provide a great music experience and also direct lots of music-seeking traffic … to partners...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
... with the help of streaming partners, which offer interesting business models of their own," said R.J. Pittman, director of product management for Google. Popular social network Facebook last week also expanded its musical offerings through a deal to integrate Lala into its gift store. Google's own Youtube video site -- already a major discovery avenue for music -- is separately partnering...
TechNology News By SeveNSize (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
... music retailers such as iTunes and Amazon.com Inc. "We're not in the music business per se," said R.J. Pittman, Google's director of product management. "We don't license the music nor sell the music directly on Google. We are merely a music search feature." But in steering millions of Internet users to its partner sites, Google is indirectly boosting the sites' abilities to compete...
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
... with the help of streaming partners, which offer interesting business models of their own," said R.J. Pittman, director of product management for Google.Popular social network Facebook last week also expanded its musical offerings through a deal to integrate Lala into its gift store. Google's own Youtube video site -- already a major discovery avenue for music -- is separately partnering...
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
... music retailers such as iTunes and Amazon.com Inc."We're not in the music business per se," said R.J. Pittman, Google's director of product management. "We don't license the music nor sell the music directly on Google. We are merely a music search feature."But in steering millions of Internet users to its partner sites, Google is indirectly boosting the sites' abilities to compete...
Appscout.com (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
... and user experience at Google. Google will not earn any revenue from the sale of MP3's, said R.J. Pittman, product manager for the music service. "This is pushing search traffic and business opportunities downstream to online partners and artists and labels, so we're happy to ... provide a great music experience and also direct lots of music-seeking traffic ... to partners that can...
MSNBC.com: Tech News & Reviews (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
... a song. "Within that mission of trying to make music search easier is to keep it simple," said R.J. Pittman, Google's director of product management. "Exercising great restraint in the design of this is what's going to maximize its adoption." Recording companies are supportive of the move to put legitimate sources of music at the forefront. "This is about extending reach," said Courtney...
Examiner (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
... "Within that mission of trying to make music search easier is to keep it simple," said R.J. Pittman, Google's director of product management. "Exercising great restraint in the design of this is what's going to maximize its adoption."Recording companies are supportive of the move to put legitimate sources of music at the forefront."This is about extending reach," said Courtney Holt,...
Physorg (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
... to do to hear a song. "Within that mission of trying to make easier is to keep it simple," said R.J. Pittman, Google's director of product management. "Exercising great restraint in the design of this is what's going to maximize its adoption." Recording companies are supportive of the move to put legitimate sources of music at the forefront. "This is about extending reach," said Courtney...
