Type a song into Google these days and whaddya get?

It’s not just lyric sites and links to YouTube videos anymore. Google’s newly developed Discover Music function may be the best way to listen to choice songs yet, top-level sound quality that you can stream straight from a search results page. I decided to try it out with one of my favorite songs from 2008.

Here’s what happened when I typed “Delta Spirit trashcan” into the search bar.

All you’ve got to do is press play and a new box pops up streaming the song pretty immediately. Usually it’s on Lala.com, which Lala founder Bill Nguyen says is intentional, but you can also stream most songs on iLike (which was recently purchased by Myspace), Pandora and Rhapsody. From there you can buy the song as an mp3 or click on for album, song, or artist information.

What’s sweeter: if you don’t know the name of a song, Google can still find it for you. Say you’re driving home, listening to the radio, and you hear “Trashcan.” When you get into your house you want to listen again, but the DJ never said the name of the song. All you remember is the infectious chorus.

With Discover Music, all you have to do is type “My love is coming I can barely hardly wait” into Google’s search bar and you get the same results as typing “Delta Spirit Trashcan.”

It should be noted that Discover Music is great and will be useful to all kinds of people, but it’s not the “iTunes killer” everybody originally hailed it as. Odds are that it’ll stay a step or two below Apple’s dominant music player until Discover can start streaming albums.