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Rap Genius Returns To Google Search Rankings

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. who? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    who?

    1. Re:who? by lxs · · Score: 5, Funny

      The people who bought this ad space.

  2. Slashdot by dale.furno · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Delete this stupid article and smack whoever posted it. what a load of useless shit.

  3. Slashdot keeps on pushing the boundaries by mutube · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Unfortunately, it's the boundaries of how un-newsworthy content can be and still be called "news".

    Someone I've never heard of does dodgy SEO, gets banned by Google, then gets the ban lifted (+- unproven allegation of favouritism) and I'm supposed to give a shit?

    Happens every day, almost entirely to other people I've never heard of either.

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    1. Re:Slashdot keeps on pushing the boundaries by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Unfortunately, it's the boundaries of how un-newsworthy content can be and still be called "news".

      Someone "modded" it up at the Firehose, and Soulskill put it on the front page... It's probably a Slashvert, either paid to Dice or more likely paid to Soulskill.

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  4. Re:Rap "Genius"? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That is about as bigoted as, "Geeks are people that have no social skills, yet still insist on pushing their electronic 'tools' on people. It is hardly possible to be more arrogant and incompetent as a human."

    I don't particularly enjoy rap, but it is evidently a musical form, and - just as with any art - doing it badly is easy, but doing it well is hard.

  5. the advertizing genius by BringsApples · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I didn't RTFA I didn't even finish reading the whole summary. This is stupid advertizing. This makes me feel like looking for other news outlets...

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  6. Re:Rap "Genius"? by camg188 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Summary of the video:
    * Rap Genius is a website that provides crowdsourced text annotation services.
    * It got it's name because it originally provided "decoding" of rap lyrics so little Joe Schmoe could figure out what "beez in the trap" means.* But now they want to provide text annotation to documents of all kinds of subjects.