Seems like @Zune is @Bing's music service...

So check out what I found. If you went to Bing and typed in Beyonce, you'll end up with search results for Beyonce the music artist. However there seems to be a few more little nuggets to that. If you clicked on 'albums' for example in the left hand column, you are presented with a listing of Beyonce's albums with a little notation at the bottom that says the music service is powered by Zune.

There are also little play buttons that seem to open up a popup window that's not ready yet. My guess is that it will allow you to use Zune's online streaming to check out the song. This is great for Zune as a service and now puts it right up there in people face when they search for their favorite music artists using the BING search service.

Way to go, Zune!

Zune.net got some updates including being able to show your purchase history.

Update: 3:35pm - So I logged into Zune.net to check my Social inbox. When I went to the upper right and hovered over my ZuneTag, I saw an option that says "My Purchases". When I clicked on that it went to another page that was trying to load something in Silverlight. Unfortunately, my office computer hates Silverlight so I can't see what that page entails (if indeed it entails anything at the moment).

Playing songs through Bing! even includes the nice little touch of the Zune HD now playing feature.

Update: 6:15pm - When you travel to bing.com/entertainment you get a better sense of what Zune is offering through the Bing search engine. Click over to music, find an artist (in my case it was Lady Gaga) and click the little play button next to a song. When you click it a popup appears and begins playing the song. However, other than the static look you get when you play a song through the popout on zune.net, you'll actually get that now playing moving look that the Zune HD does when it's playing a song. That's a fantastic little visual touch to include. The buy stuff still seems wonky, but I'm liking how Zune has integrated itself into Bing to help people with their musical search.

Note, however, that you'll only get one full play of a song. After that you'll have to settle for 30-second snips.

Update: 7:00pm - For the full details of how Bing is going Hollywood, including the Zune integration, visit their blog post here.

Update: 10:00pm - Are there more goodies in Zune.net that I don't know about (like actual features)? Turns out you can do Smart DJ via the website. I've been browsing this thing for a while now and totally missed that, but here you go. If you type in an artist (one that brings up their artist name and photo in the search) then you can start playing a Smart DJ playlist via the popup Zune player:

Choose an artist in that Smart DJ search box and hit the play button

And you will be rewarded with a Smart DJ playlist to listen via the website