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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

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Post by songrabbit »

beaker wrote: post #47

I like the publicly editable tagline, it seems like a fun idea. There was something about sexual relations with bunnies however when I visited the site. Maybe a keyword filter would help?

We are working on filtering out malicious code right now, we'll start thinking about content after that ;)

Re: Show HN: We made a spam-free lyric search engine

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Post by gruseom »

mturmon wrote: post #39

The idea is great. The search responses fail to find a lot of pretty standard songs (girls want to be with the girls fails to return the talking heads song, helicopter fails to return the xtc song, books about ufos fails to return the husker du song, ...). And september gurls returns the bangles cover ...

Hey that's a pretty great list of four songs to search for.

Re: Show HN: We made a spam-free lyric search engine

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Post by ShardPhoenix »

songrabbit wrote: post #15
ShardPhoenix wrote: post #8

I can't figure out how to do anything here. I click the text below the logo and it disappears, and nothing else happens.

Try again, we just went down for a few minutes

I just tried again, it's working for me now.

Re: Show HN: We made a spam-free lyric search engine

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Post by songrabbit »

perlgeek wrote: post #61

I like it, just needs some polishing: * Black text in dark gray boxes is hard to read * The logo takes up too much vertical screen space * You should really point to your sources * Some meta information (song writer, year) would be nice. * noscript tags are missing

Thanks for the input, neither of us are designers so we especially appreciate usability feedback. We'll be getting to work on these, and yes, I agree we should be pointing to our sources. I'll be committing changes once I get my network connection back from Irene

Re: Show HN: We made a spam-free lyric search engine

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Post by skeletonjelly »

irfn wrote: post #40
HaloZero wrote: post #22

What'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)

well.. http://www.songrabbit.com/ is ad free :)

How do you think this will be sustainable? I remember a good reddit or HN thread asking why lyric websites seemed to be particularly ad-laden. The consensus was that due to the nature of the visitors, it was the only viable revenue stream. Users to these kind of sites really only visit for a short period and leave after they've found what they came for. Having said that, I have no suggestion on what would work.

Re: Show HN: We made a spam-free lyric search engine

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Post by ericmsimons »

I did something similar to this a year or two ago (http://www.lyricfuser.com)

I'm not sure how you guys are scraping the lyrics, but almost all of the large lyric sites ended up blocking my server's IP. You should do this in Javascript if possible to avoid getting blocked. Looks great though!

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