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More specifically, companies are going to avoid entering markets (e.g. online lyrics databases) where Google has demonstrated an unwillingness to appropriately
by zorpner 13y ago
More specifically, companies are going to avoid entering markets (e.g. online lyrics databases) where Google has demonstrated an unwillingness to appropriately punish established players who use the same black hat practices, since it's impossible to compete in the organic rankings against them.
- owenmarshall 13y ago>an unwillingness to appropriately punish established players Can you find another example of the other lyrics sites pushing a quid pro quo scheme on Twitter? The other lyrics sites might be scummy and Google doesn't care -- or they might just cover their tracks enough to avoid giving Google enough proof to hang them.
- cycrutchfield 13y ago"it's impossible to compete in the organic rankings against them." Isn't that precisely what rapgenius had done (affiliate linkscam notwithstanding)? They were already the top result for many lyrics queries, they just got greedy