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While I am a fan of the RapGenius product, can all the superfluous crap just go away? If I was investing in RG or advising them, I'd tell them to put a muzzle on it. They have a good product, stop screwing it up.
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Valleywag is east coast hater bullshit. It's a badge of honor to get attacked by Valleywag[1] [1] http://valleywag.gawker.com/anti-foreigner-vc-also-supports-...
What does that have to do with the way these guys act?
This is complicated. 1. rapgenius is probably the least spammy lyrics site on the internet, and definitely so amongst those on the first page of search results. As a consumer, I would not have a problem with Google, et al giving rapgenius results a special algorithmic bump to move them up. I also know that this is an opinion - it may be a popular opinion, but it is still inherently subjective. 2. If I was in rapgeniu…
I can't tell if Hacker News hates African-American culture, or just white boys who take part in it. If they were annotating Opera Librettas and spoke in Victorian English, I'm sure HN would love them. It's not like they are complete posers. They got investment from Nas.
My tastes are pretty middlebrow and all I could think to search for was Non piu andrai, which I couldn't find, but as far as poetry goes they've got works like The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and Ode to a Grecian Urn, and for literature they've got Joyce's amazing short story (and set at Christmastime) The Dead, The Cask of Amontillado, and with annotations by the founder Mahbod, War and Peace (he also says one of his favorite books is Nicholas Nickleby, which is not really an obvious choice: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NAzQPll7Lo#t=1018).
"With limited tools (Open Site Explorer), we found some suspicious backlinks to some of our competitors:" I thought snitching wasn't cool in the hip hop community?
I'm actually unbiased and prefer the alternative. When I'm looking for lyrics I just want lyrics and couldn't care less about the annotation. I'm not saying I'm the norm but saying the "norm" would always go for RapGenius is not fair, at least in my case.
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1. If Google would penalize their own sites for link schemes (i.e. Chrome) done by third party agencies, certainly they should for Rap Genius. This isn't about whats the best site, this is about maintaining credibility in their index. The moment Google plays favorites manually is the moment I switch to another search engine. 2. Gaming SEO is attractive to almost everybody. Google needs to make it so painful to get ca…
Google definitely plays favorites. It is written in to how PageRank works. Some sites are Trusted manually. The distance from those sites is your Page Rank Flow. Now that we have that settled, and you are looking for a new search engine, let me suggest http://www.plexisearch.com/ It uses a lot less Page Rank style rankings, we don't have to do much delisting since we can usually tell using NLP if a site is any good.
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Wait, what? How do you get from "juvenile and offensive" to "hates African-American culture"? That's your own bias at play, there, bud. Loud and clear.
"Stop using slang. Get rid of that swagger. Don't brag. And wear a goddamn button-down shirt." In other words, stop acting like Jay-Z and start acting like Mark Zuckerberg.
Zuckerberg, on the other hand, wears T-shirts, jeans, and sneakers.
Where are you getting your preconceived notions from? Ask yourself.
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This is complicated. 1. rapgenius is probably the least spammy lyrics site on the internet, and definitely so amongst those on the first page of search results. As a consumer, I would not have a problem with Google, et al giving rapgenius results a special algorithmic bump to move them up. I also know that this is an opinion - it may be a popular opinion, but it is still inherently subjective. 2. If I was in rapgeniu…
the least spammy lyrics site on the internet Is songmeanings spammy at all? They didn't even have ads for the longest time, and they don't do crappy a-dozen-pop-unders like other sites these days.
