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Re:Google Has Officially Penalized Rap Genius For Link Schemes by skndr on Wednesday December 25, 2013 @12:38PM (#6963545)
It's a pyrrhic victory. Now, the best lyrics site can't be found and Google itself is less useful for it.

At least https://duckduckgo.com/?q=it+was+a+good+day+rapgenius seems to work fine.

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Re:Google Has Officially Penalized Rap Genius For Link Schemes by siliconviking on Wednesday December 25, 2013 @04:55PM (#6964403)
For what it's worth, they use Yahoo's search API.
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Re:Google Has Officially Penalized Rap Genius For Link Schemes by seoguy on Wednesday December 25, 2013 @12:45PM (#6963584)
100% agreed, google cut off their nose to spite their face here.
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