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This just makes Google less useful. RG had the best lyrics and annotations for lots of songs. Now Google sends me to barely-readable sites that only exist to sh
by dangrossman 13y ago
This just makes Google less useful. RG had the best lyrics and annotations for lots of songs. Now Google sends me to barely-readable sites that only exist to show as many ads as possible per page, even if I include "rap genius" in the search.
- olalonde 13y ago> This just makes Google less useful. In the short term. In the long term, this move probably has prevented a lot of black hat SEO and spam from happening on the web.
- captainmuon 13y agoWe should start the same kind of campaign to add these kind of links to the bad lyrics sites. Maybe Google will penalize them too. Btw., duckduckgo still shows rapgenius on top.
- ryanhuff 13y agoYou could always go direct to RG.
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- dangrossman 13y agoThat's beside the point. Millions of people that search Google for lyrics every month getting sent to worse sites is a problem for Google, not for me.
- AznHisoka 13y agoThe disappearance of 1 lyrics site(albeit a good one) from the face of Earth doesn't even come closing to putting a deny into Google's search quality. There are a million other sites out there. RapGenius is the one that has lost, not Google
- llamataboot 13y agoIt's not about whether or not google is useful for finding this particular site and this particular niche, it's about making sure their search results overall aren't being gamed. Sucks for RG (though they pretty much deserved it here) but better for all of us that use search engines to find good content, which is pretty much all of us.