Google has removed Rap Genius from the top of its search results after it was discovered that the popular music lyrics website was trying to trick the tech giant into giving it better search rankings.
CBS News: Larry Magid: Google Punishes Rap Genius Website Over SEO Practices
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) – The website Rap Genius, which provides annotated lyrics for hip-hop songs, has been punished by Google after the tech giant said they violated rules while trying to improve ...
Popular rap lyric deciphering website Rap Genius has just made it that much easier to catch every lyric for all your favorite songs with the debut of their new iPhone app. Reaching beyond the realms ...
Rap Genius, a lyrics database website, has been caught by Google trying to bolster its search engine ranking by offering link backs to blogs on its Twitter account. Google found Rap Genius in ...
One cofounder of contextual lyrics site Rap Genius, Mahbod Moghadam, says that its annotation system will become integral to all text on the Internet. He’s also fixated on his pimples, which he talks ...
The Motley Fool: How Lyrics Site Rap Genius Survived a Google Penalty
Rap Genius got out of Google (GOOG 0.42%) jail this weekend. The lyrics-annotation start-up had ranked at the top of many lyrics searches before Google removed it on Christmas Day for spammy linking ...
Techaeris: Rap Genius Gets Caught Trying To Work Google Search Rankings In Its Favor
Rap Genius Gets Caught Trying To Work Google Search Rankings In Its Favor
$15 million is a lot of cash to invest in a rap lyrics site, but Andreessen Horowitz’s investment in Rap Genius is the start of something much, much bigger. Founded in 2009 by a trio of Yale ...