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By people who are not fans of Rap Genius, of which there are many. (I like the site, for what it's worth).
Why was it disliked (prior to this incident)?
http://news.rapgenius.com/Lemon-money-trees-rap-genius-respo...
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I consider myself sophisticated and I still use Google for something like Rap Genius: "rap genius kendrick lamar swimming pools" would get me there quicker than any other way. It's incredible that now that search string sends me to other pages that link to RG's lyrics but not directly to theirs.
If you actually knew how to use Google this wouldn't be a problem. The `site:` filter is your friend.
chrome://settings/searchEngines
search engine: rapgenius.com
keyword: rg
url: http://rapgenius.com/search?q=%s
Then just type rg in the omnibox and search for whatever you want, and get taken to rg's serp.
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Don't forget that rap genius didn't / doesn't want to just be a lyrics site, they also do the whole "what do these lyrics mean" deal. I'd have no idea what 2 Chainz was going on about half the time were it not for RG.
You'd have no idea what 2 chainz was saying, or the meaning of what he is saying? Which begs the question: if you don't know what 2 chainz is going on about half the time why do you listen to him?
Microsoft should jump on this. Run ads promoting Rap Genius as the best lyrics site on the web, and noting that you can find it easily with Bing, but not with Google. Kind of like those Visa ads that highlighted some cool place and then said don't bother of you use American Express, because the cool place doesn't take AmEx, it takes Visa.
I wish I was a Microsoft marketing exec so I could take credit for this idea.
If RG thinks they're so great (and all the bandwagoners on HN), then they should prove it by playing fairly. My suspicion is that the vast majority of people who search for lyrics don't care about song meanings or annotations. Azlyrics does just fine, which is why they've always been at the top. If people wanted song meanings they would search for song meanings. My theory is that RG wasn't able to grow as fast as the…
The difference between RG and songmeanings, and really any other lyrics website in existence, is the quality of the annotations. My habit of listening to rap has changed quite dramatically since I have discovered RG - I don't have to speculate about what a line might mean, because now there's a whole community of people who love rap collate their collective wisdom and tell you what it means. The verified annotations…
That doesn't change the size of the market.
That is, unless you think the quality or features are so good that it will increase the size of the market. In that sense, I don't think RG is groundbreaking enough IMO.
Songmeanings has been around for over a decade. If the market demand was really there ($15mm investment worth), they would naturally gotten some funding, or enough revenue, to improve their product and soak the $ potential out of the market.
If RG thinks they're so great (and all the bandwagoners on HN), then they should prove it by playing fairly. My suspicion is that the vast majority of people who search for lyrics don't care about song meanings or annotations. Azlyrics does just fine, which is why they've always been at the top. If people wanted song meanings they would search for song meanings. My theory is that RG wasn't able to grow as fast as the…
Their ambition isn't limited to the song meanings / annotations market. They wouldn't have raised $15m on that. Look at how they're branching out. PoetryGenius, NewsGenius, etc. They want to annotate the world's information. That's a huge market and with RG's excellent execution so far (everyone has missteps - remember that), it warrants a $15m bet.
For example, Rdio tried to do Vdio with video and look how that turned out.
Off the top of my head, I can't even think of one company that expanded to different categories successfully. It's difficult and really rare.
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Don't forget that rap genius didn't / doesn't want to just be a lyrics site, they also do the whole "what do these lyrics mean" deal. I'd have no idea what 2 Chainz was going on about half the time were it not for RG.
> Don't forget that rap genius didn't / doesn't want to just be a lyrics site, they also do the whole "what do these lyrics mean" deal. Do we really want to know the true meaning behind Dr. Dre's masterpiece? Is it so important that it needs $15 million dollars? Seems to me the wheels were being reinvented and being sold as square. http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/drdre/bitchesaintshit.html Bitches ain't shit but hoes…
I'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.
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Their ambition isn't limited to the song meanings / annotations market. They wouldn't have raised $15m on that. Look at how they're branching out. PoetryGenius, NewsGenius, etc. They want to annotate the world's information. That's a huge market and with RG's excellent execution so far (everyone has missteps - remember that), it warrants a $15m bet.
That could be their goal, but it's a lot easier said than done, especially in markets that haven't been executed before. For example, Rdio tried to do Vdio with video and look how that turned out. Off the top of my head, I can't even think of one company that expanded to different categories successfully. It's difficult and really rare.
I can. Here are three: Salesforce. Amazon. Google.
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My browser (Chrome) shares screen real estate between its search functionality and address bar. Therefore, if I have searched "facebook" on Google but have not explicitly typed " http://facebook.com" into the address bar, Chrome remembers the "facebook" search as I start to type it out. As a user, the next most obvious action to take is to tab-complete + enter, and voila, there goes the Google search for "facebook".
When I tab-complete + enter, Firefox autocompletes it to http://www.facebook.com and then opens the URL.