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Based on Marc's reasoning given on the site, sounds like they have an easy pivot into annotating everything if the rights issue takes them out of the lyrics gam
by phuff 14y ago
Based on Marc's reasoning given on the site, sounds like they have an easy pivot into annotating everything if the rights issue takes them out of the lyrics game...
- streptomycin 14y agoBut if the rights issue wasn't there, wouldn't Google build a competitor in a few days? It's a fairly simple website to make, and lyrics websites do a ton of traffic.
- dannyr 14y agoThere was Apture which was doing similar. They got bought by Google last year. http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/10/google-buys-contextual-rich-news-browsing-startup-apture-to-beef-up-chrome/ http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/10/google-buys-contextual-rich...
- pirroh 14y agoGoogle built something similar years ago--not a direct competitor to RapGenius, but rather a generic annotation platform for the Web. Guess what? It's now discontinued: http://www.google.com/sidewiki/ http://www.google.com/sidewiki/ It's not trivial to build annotation platforms that are both compelling and easy to use. Hat tip to RapGenius!
- streptomycin 14y agoIt is trivial to build a lyrics site, and it would be very helpful to search users who so often search for lyrics and wind up on shitty websites.