Rap Genius is back in Google’s good graces after a slap on the wrist for SEO spam, but search traffic could become less important to the annotations site as today it launches its first mobile app.

The name of Rap Genius’ first mobile app — Genius — may signal the company’s continued move away from only covering rap music and toward its stated quest to annotate all of culture. With Genius… By ...

Rap Genius launched its first mobile app today, Genius, described by the company as “your pocket guide to human culture.” The app will allow users to search Rap Genius, scan songs in the users… By ...

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After Rap Genius rebranded to just plain ‘Genius’, their mission expanded beyond one genre of music to annotating every piece of text in the world. However, they still maintain a vast and up-to-date ...

You can’t fault Rap Genius for a lack of ambition. The company launched its website back in 2009 as a crowd-sourced platform for annotated rap lyrics and has just released its first app for iOS – a ...

Genius, gone from rap song explanation site to annotator of the entire Internet, has today launched a revamped version of the website, the iOS app, and for the first time ever, an Android app. The ...

We may earn a commission when you click links to retailers and purchase goods. More info. Genius, a go-to website for song lyrics and deeper lyrical meanings, now has its very own Android app ...

A mobile version of Apple's Genius recommendation feature, which suggests applications to users based on their account activity, has been added to the main navigational tabs found on the iPad App ...