Super cool, I enjoy the clean interface. Changing the URL would be nice for linking. Lyric sites are pretty bad ATM.
How do you plan to get revenue, if there are no ads?
Show HN: We made a spam-free lyric search engine
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Re: Show HN: We made a spam-free lyric search engine
#22What's wrong with http://lyrics.wikia.com/Main_Page?
(I really should have posted this as reply to when you mention there are no spam free lyric search engines)
Re: Show HN: We made a spam-free lyric search engine
#23Nice! Sadly, the first lyric I thought to try ("song that doesn't end") didn't work. :) The links at the upper right are so faint they almost disappear; a bit more contrast, please. How do you plan to deal with the copyright issues that will inevitably get thrown at you? Your "legal" link says you don't store any copyrighted material, but I don't see any evidence that you load it from elsewhere, and in any case that…
did you use quotes? try it without it.
Re: Show HN: We made a spam-free lyric search engine
#24Super cool, I enjoy the clean interface. Changing the URL would be nice for linking. Lyric sites are pretty bad ATM. How do you plan to get revenue, if there are no ads?
we are currently working on a hash based linking system.
Re: Show HN: We made a spam-free lyric search engine
#25Most of the traffic to lyric sites originate from long-tail search keywords (414 million global broad match monthly searches for lyrics). Your site has no Googlebot crawlable data, barring you from participating in a share of the long-tail search volume.
That's okay, for now this just exists as a solution to the problem that no lyric sites exist which are not aggressively bad. Though, we might contend that a large amount of traffic comes from the long-tail search because there is no site worth going to - ie it doesn't matter which lyric site I use, so I might as well just google it.
I like your site a lot, but am wondering when you get hit for being various kinds of scrapers.
I wish you well, I am so glad to find that others hate lyrics sites as much as I do. And yet, I am often searching for lyrics (when I don't have Soundhound near me.)
I am able to use Google's Personal Blocklist to block out the worst of the worst sites. That leaves me with a pretty good solution.
Re: Show HN: We made a spam-free lyric search engine
#26Lots of AJAX with no state in the url. Means I can't send my friends to a search results page (bad) or to a lyrics page (worse).
true, we will be working on a remedy for this.
Re: Show HN: We made a spam-free lyric search engine
#27Most of the traffic to lyric sites originate from long-tail search keywords (414 million global broad match monthly searches for lyrics). Your site has no Googlebot crawlable data, barring you from participating in a share of the long-tail search volume.
That's okay, for now this just exists as a solution to the problem that no lyric sites exist which are not aggressively bad. Though, we might contend that a large amount of traffic comes from the long-tail search because there is no site worth going to - ie it doesn't matter which lyric site I use, so I might as well just google it.
http://lystener.com/ exists.
There must be a reason why these clean lyrics sites aren't more prominent.
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#30I just see a rabbit with headphones, and some low-contrast links to a legal page and a contact email. Is something broken?