Rap Genius Returns To Google Search Rankings

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday January 4, 2014 @07:55AM from the play-nice-with-the-internets dept.

theodp writes "After being punished by Google for manipulative SEO tactics, a contrite Rap Genius says it's back in Google's good graces. 'It takes a few days for things to return to normal, but we're officially back!' reads a post by the Rap Genius founders. 'First of all, we owe a big thanks to Google for being fair and transparent and allowing us back onto their results pages. We overstepped, and we deserved to get smacked.' Rap Genius credits some clever trackback scraping programming for its quick redemption, but a skeptic might suggest it probably didn't hurt that Rap Genius' biggest investor, Andreessen Horowitz, is tight with Google."

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Rap "Genius"? by cold+fjord · 2014-01-04 07:59 · Score: 2, Funny

Q: Rap Genius?
A: Oxymoron

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much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
Re:who? by lxs · 2014-01-04 08:22 · Score: 5, Funny

The people who bought this ad space.