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I believe it was Genius that was using rare unicode characters in the lyrics that don't really show up when viewing the page. They were able to see that Google

by giarc 6y ago

I believe it was Genius that was using rare unicode characters in the lyrics that don't really show up when viewing the page. They were able to see that Google had those same characters in their lyric results and therefore Google was just scraping Genius.

sidibe 6y ago
Ah thanks, that's the case. There's definitely some wrongdoing there but it's murky who is responsible since Google actually got the lyrics from LyricFind who stole it from Genius.
- giarc 6y ago
  Ironically this news came out today. https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/11/court-dismisses-genius-lawsuit-over-lyrics-scraping-by-google/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLnljb21iaW5hdG9yLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAD7S1U9BrD-DNynCtYcUzcy0r0V73lepj3yOoPlMwYevzR7WsiRHR8MdhjvDKnjwQi230hCfyLn6SoiTNUB9HMbASZcO18uaJQsRhWuHXCOvu3XMaHfa0GGU3dLK-YOSt5cbe4ERnmvMDMLeD-3fOTh2WkEdV4R8XlaGh1wHVPMy https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/11/court-dismisses-genius-law...