Google announced its launch of free legal music downloads in China. Free downloads of licensed songs are available and the service via Google’s search engine. Google currently offers more than 350,000 high quality songs from Chinese and foreign artists signed by Sony Music, Warner Music, EMI and Universal Music.
According to Lee Kai-Fu, president of Google in China, Google lagged in China search market was because it did not offer music downloads, where its competitor, Baidu.com does. With this free song for download service, Google hopes to increase its market shares in the country’s search market substantially.
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