You could call Rap Genius a “text annotation website,” but that’s kind of selling the Brooklyn-based, venture-backed startup short. Better: Rap Genius has probably discovered the next Kanye West. Or ...
Google has removed Rap Genius from the top of its search results after it was discovered that the popular music lyrics website was trying to trick the tech giant into giving it better search rankings.
Popular rap lyric deciphering website Rap Genius has just made it that much easier to catch every lyric for all your favorite songs with the debut of their new iPhone app. Reaching beyond the realms ...
Google (GOOG) has removed Rap Genius from the top of its search results after it was discovered that the popular music lyrics website was trying to trick the tech giant into giving it better search ...
CBS News: Larry Magid: Google Punishes Rap Genius Website Over SEO Practices
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) – The website Rap Genius, which provides annotated lyrics for hip-hop songs, has been punished by Google after the tech giant said they violated rules while trying to improve ...
$15 million is a lot of cash to invest in a rap lyrics site, but Andreessen Horowitz’s investment in Rap Genius is the start of something much, much bigger. Founded in 2009 by a trio of Yale ...
TechCrunch: Genius Now Lets You Annotate Any Web Page, Not Just Rap
Rap Genius was just the first step to fulfilling Marc Andreessen’s Netscape dream of letting people annotate the whole Internet. Today, the lyric explanation startup tries to achieve its destiny with ...