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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

#31

I just see a rabbit with headphones, and some low-contrast links to a legal page and a contact email. Is something broken?

It broke again. May want to consider removing the editable title function while it is on the front page of HN so you don't lose exposure.

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

#36

Nice! 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.

I tried it both ways; without quotes it produces some results, but not the desired result: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/The_Song_That...

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

#38
post #21

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?

we are currently working on a hash based linking system.

You might consider using real query URLs such as /?q=query or /q/query , and using the HTML5 history API to load those query URLs via javascript without changing the page. That gives you unique URLs without just using anchors, making it feasible to index.

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

#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 ...

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