Prepare for Google Music Store (GMusic?)

Rumors are rife about Google’s venture into lucrative online music store market, thereby competing with Apple’s highly successful iPod.

Declan finds that Google has added /music to its robots.txt file, potentially indicating the site can come up anytime. He also found searching for google.com/music shows the site. Normally when a site is unavailable it gives a standard - Sorry, no information is available for the URL message.

The Financial Times has reported that “Amazon and Google are separately in talks with music industry executives about new digital music services”.

Competition is better. It would be interesting to see how Apple’s iPod fares against strong competition from Google.