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I'll shed a tear. Some of those ad traps provided exactly what I wanted: lyrics for a song.

• mjn 13y ago
  They've definitely added some lyrics to the internet that weren't previously there. Unfortunately, the rise of these aggregated ad-trap lyrics sites has also had the side-effect of crowding out better, more decentralized lyrics. Google seems to prefer these big centralized sites over the long-tail fan sites that provide higher-quality, curated and proofread lyrics. When I search for, say, [joy division atrocity exhibition lyrics], I get 10 generic lyrics sites as my first page of Google results. But what I really want is to get a result more like this: http://www.joydiv.org/shadowplay/joyd/atrocity.html http://www.joydiv.org/shadowplay/joyd/atrocity.html Besides not being piled up with ads, those fan-curated sites typically have fewer spelling errors, actually attribute lyrics to specific versions of a song and note variations, etc. Of course, in the cases where I already know a good fan site, I can either go directly, or do a site: search in Google. But in other cases I have to click through pages of this junk.
  • mindslight 13y ago
    What you've said pretty much applies to any topic you can search for. Some search engine (DDG?) really needs to add an option to only return pages with no (or at least fewer) ads.
    • benologist 13y ago
      "No Adsense" would probably come close to a spam-free search engine.