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To me this is as simple as some people made an easily copied site that provides very little value (there's 50+ lyrics sites). Google, rightly, adds lyrics resul
by greggman3 6y ago
To me this is as simple as some people made an easily copied site that provides very little value (there's 50+ lyrics sites). Google, rightly, adds lyrics results to search. It's part of their mission.
Sucks to be Genius but if they want people to visit they need to provide something more than "facts".
As for the idea that Google scraped the site, as pointed out elsewhere, they didn't, their contractors may have, the contractor pointed out to Genius that the same results Genius was complaining about were on many other sites (maybe those sites copied from Genius as well). The contractor offer to remove many copies anyway, Genius didn't respond.
Further, this is exactly the kind of thing that is probably not too far from automating via speech recognition and/or ad partnering. If it was me, I'd consider trying to partner with the music companies, send us the lyrics and we'll link to your site/band/videos...
- AlexandrB 6y ago> To me this is as simple as some people made an easily copied site that provides very little value (there's 50+ lyrics sites). Spoken like someone who's never looked up lyrics online before. Genius is to lyrics what Stack Overflow is to programming questions. In both cases there were/are other sites doing the same thing, but they are ad-riddled, inaccurate, incomplete, and sometimes paywalled.
- tantalor 6y agoThe 285th Rule of the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition states that "No good deed ever goes unpunished."
- joshuaissac 6y ago> If it was me, I'd consider trying to partner with the music companies Genius already has deals with the music companies for the licences required to display the lyrics.[1] Someone stated under a different comment thread on this story that music companies will only provide the licence, so Genius has to source the lyrics separately. But I do not understand how any of this is relevant to Genius getting their content taken by Google's contractors. If Google displays that content on their own website, no-one will click through to Genius. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/07/business/media/rap-genius-website-agrees-to-license-with-music-publishers.html https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/07/business/media/rap-genius...