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Re:Rap Genius Traffic Has Dropped By Over 80% by fragsworth on Sunday December 29, 2013 @03:16PM (#6981109)
They're using this as a punitive measure to prevent SEO abuse from happening in the future. I don't see much of a problem with it. Google is doing everyone a favor here - including helping out other search engines.

Users who care enough can just go directly to the site.

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Re:Rap Genius Traffic Has Dropped By Over 80% by antr on Sunday December 29, 2013 @03:29PM (#6981189)
google already took equal measures with other companies, pretty public all of them. this story is making a lot of noise on the interwebs because its a known startup with well known investors. had it been a random blog no one would be talking about this.

google's action is only consistent with what it has done in the past with others.

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