Google to add attribution to licensed lyrics providers
Google responds to the allegations that it scraped Genius lyrics without paying for that content.
Topic: Lyrics
Song Lyrics Hit The SERPs: Analyzing Google & Bing Traffic To 5 Large-Scale Lyrics Websites [Case Study]
Many have noted that 2014 was a bad year for lyrics websites, but contributor Glenn Gabe set out to quantify the impact of search engines displaying song lyrics directly in the results pages. Read on for his findings!
Report: 2014 Was A Bad Year For Lyrics Sites In Google
2014 was a bad year for lyrics web sites in Google, with 2015 looking to be even worse for this niche.
Google Music Video Search Results Now Contain Links To Lyrics On Google Play
Google's music video search results also contain lyrics snippets with a link to the full lyrics on Google Play.
Official: Google Provides Song Lyrics In Search Results, With Links To Google Play
Google's Knowledge Graph and Direct Answers takes a stab out of lyrics web sites, with new song lyrics answers.
Bing Starts Showing Full Song Lyrics Right In Search Results
While SEOs debate Google’s recent addition of structured data in its search results, Bing is making a similar — and perhaps more significant — change to its search results: Full song lyrics are now showing on Bing’s search results page in the US, and Bing says it plans to expand this outside the US in […]
Google Has Officially Penalized Rap Genius For Link Schemes
Google has penalized Rap Genius for link schemes this morning. If you go to Google and search for [rap genius], rapgenius.com will not be found on the first page. Instead you will find links to their Twitter account, Facebook page, Wikipedia profile and stories like this about them being penalized by Google. But you won’t […]
Live Blogging From The Google Discover Music Launch Event
The expected Google Music Search is real, and our Google Music Search 2.0 Launches With Musical “OneBox” story provides the play-by-play of how it works. Be sure to read that! From me, the color commentary out of today’s launch event at Capitol Records in Hollywood. I’ll be live blogging the news. We’re expecting some musical […]
Google Music Search 2.0 Launches With Musical “OneBox”
Saying that it wants to bring music fans “closer to your favorite artists,” Google has added a new Music Search OneBox to its search results. The new OneBox includes content from partner sites such as MySpace, Pandora, Lala and others, and lets searchers listen to song clips right from Google’s search results page. Searchers should […]
One Day You’re Optimized, The Next Day You’re A Spammer
It is no secret that human review has been playing a bigger role at Google over the past couple years. And we are emotional beings… no matter how logical the guidelines may be, emotions cause human errors. But not all sites that get penalized are penalized in error. Many deserve it. Sadly, Google’s guidelines for […]
Yahoo Search Integrates Lyrics Shortcut
The Yahoo Search blog has reported that Yahoo has now integrated their new music lyrics database into the Yahoo search results. If you perform a search on neil young lyrics at Yahoo, you will see a Yahoo Shortcut for “Neil Young Lyrics – Music Results.”
Yahoo Partners With Gracenote To Provide Lyrics For 400,000 Songs
Yahoo strikes deal to catalog lyrics online from San Jose Mercury News reports on Yahoo’s announcement that they have partnered with Gracenote to provide the lyrics of over 400,000 songs. The general manager of Yahoo Music, Ian Rogers, explained that this partnership “fills a huge, gaping hole out there.” Since many of the lyrics sites […]