Lyrics site Rap Genius says that it is no longer penalized within Google after taking action to correct “unnatural links” that it helped create. The site was hit with a penalty for 10 days, which ...

Google hit back hard today after it learned lyrics site Rap Genius had been using dubious SEO tricks to attain top spots in search results. Now RapGenius.com doesn’t appear on the first page of ...

A few days ago, a tech investment firm Andreessen Horowitz put $15 million into a site called Rap Genius. Rap Genius is a lyrics site that helps readers figure out what the words behind a song really ...

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.

Can a company of brogrammers—best known for explaining Kanye West lyrics and telling Warren Buffett to do unseemly things— actually annotate the world? Genius’s task is now a cultural, not technical, ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. One of the fastest growing websites in the history of Y Combinator just got a huge chunk of cash from Andreesen ...

First Rap Genius helped the Web understand rap. Then the startup set out to annotate everything, from literature and history to sports and film. Now with 40 million in new funding from Dan Gilbert and ...

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 ...

Rap Genius cofounder Mahbod Moghadam took to the alleged UCSB shooter's memoir this afternoon and, using Rap Genius, annotated the publication with some very bizarre comments. Rap Genius is a heavily ...

Rap Genius has been sent into the Google underbelly for now. Dec. 26, 2013— -- Whether you were preparing for your bar's karaoke night or settling a bet about the exact words to "Like a Rolling ...

Rap Genius started out in 2009 as a place where hip-hop fans could read and analyze their favorite rap lyrics, a cross between Wikipedia and Urban Dictionary. So it should come as no surprise that ...