that's fair. i think this whole thing has been overhyped, frankly. itunes is king because of usability, because it's part of a system. if you're a mac user, you get the system. mac os - itunes - iphone - ipod - ical - mobileme - etc.  it all works together very well. i don't know that any of these sites are really poised to be very competitive with apple, despite google's best efforts.

and there has previously been a google music search result which came up above all other search results, which contained discography information and possibly linked to amazon. so this pushing down of general search results in favor of a google endorsed "widget" is nothing new.