Yep - the tireless worker bees at Google have launched yet another feature, and that's Google Music. Basically, it's just a search shortcut; we've seen this already when you search Google for movie showtimes.

What this new music shortcut does is this: type in a popular artist, say, the White Stripes and you'll get something that looks like this:

Only really popular artists are getting the Google star treatment right now; but according to the Official Google Blog there's definitely plans to expand this. Neato!

Related: And while we're on the subject of tireless Google worker bees, why don't you take a sec and vote for your Favorite Google Product of 2005. So far, Google Earth is the clear winner.