why is rap genius the best for lyrics? if i want lyrics, i want a simple print out of the lyrics
Perhaps there is a market for a curl or git based lyrics downloader in the terminal.
Rap Genius Traffic Has Dropped By Over 80%
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#32ironically google trends shows a massive increase in interest http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=rapgenius.com
This reminds me of the Miley Cirus insanity of past months. She gained more popularity than ever before by acting erotic and capitalizing on peoples' disgust. People were promoting her name in insults and jokes around the world. Here, the term "Rap Genius" is being popularized by controversy.
"there is no such thing as bad publicity…" would be really interesting to see their analytics data / wonder that will be down 80% as well
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#33Which is really a shame, because RapGenius is a better lyrics site than all the rest by leaps and bounds. Google is acting like a cartel here and it's absolutely ridiculous. I hope they can beat this thing.
I do think that RapGenius' punishment is pretty harsh, but I don't think Google's behavior is "absolutely ridiculous". RapGenius did some shady stuff and they should be penalized for it so that this stuff doesn't pervade the web. I also don't think Google is acting like a cartel, in that they aren't extorting RapGenius or killing family members. But maybe Google should've laid off the crusade after a week or so.
I mostly agree with you. However, I think the parent comment was referring to the economic sense of "cartel"[1].
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
All I can glean from that is that the typical visitor to RapGenius can't be bothered to set up a separate user account for his/her children. This brings up an important point: hardly anyone knows how to configure or troubleshoot their computer. This is by far a more important point than some arbitrary "learn to code" movement that doesn't teach CS, and does NOT teach programming – it's like giving somebody a hammer a…
I'm confused. Do you think RapGenius visitors are children or adults?
RapGenius visitors are probably adults or young adults, but the fact that the average "visitor" visits NPR and pbskids is indicative that the visitor has children or siblings, which means that a child and an adult are on the same browser on the same user.
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#35I'm not sure if it's right or wrong what Google did, but it was certainly a shit business decision. It's Google's job to be a proper search tool for anyone to get the best possible results when searching something as simple as "rapgenius". If I search "rapgenius" and don't get the hugely popular website http://rapgenius.com as the first result, then that's bad service on Google's end.
> but it was certainly a shit business decision Not really, because they're using this kind of punishment to make an example of them in order to prevent future SEO abuse by others. It's probably for the better.
The abuse already goes on, and it's much more involved and 1,000% more effective than trading links.
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#36why is rap genius the best for lyrics? if i want lyrics, i want a simple print out of the lyrics
They have added value in their annotated lyrics, which comes in handy especially with cryptic word play/slang in rap lyrics.
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#38What I find shocking is a single company (Google) has the power to cause such a dramatic decrease of a website it deemed "unworthy".
Sure, it can justify its actions by saying they broke the rules, but pressing the a "death button" for a website is not a solution.
I feel as though Google needs to re-examine their core principles and determine how to better handle an issue like this. Otherwise, I suspect Google might have anti-trust and anti-competitive issues and the government might set the rules for them, and we all know how bad that would be.
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#39This has moved from an interesting case study in SEO to unadulterated schadenfreude.
schadenfreude by who? Certainly not by Google or the media.
Re: Rap Genius Traffic Has Dropped By Over 80%
#40I'm not sure if it's right or wrong what Google did, but it was certainly a shit business decision. It's Google's job to be a proper search tool for anyone to get the best possible results when searching something as simple as "rapgenius". If I search "rapgenius" and don't get the hugely popular website http://rapgenius.com as the first result, then that's bad service on Google's end.
+1. Even if RapGenius did cheat, they are still the best solution for Google's customers (i.e. those sheep whose data can be mined and sold). So I don't get why Google essentially fucks up with their customers.
Kind of like Too Big to Fail. Hmm...