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Re:Rap Genius Traffic Has Dropped By Over 80% by rgbrgb on Sunday December 29, 2013 @03:22PM (#6981146)
I mostly agree with you. However, I think the parent comment was referring to the economic sense of "cartel"[1].

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartel

Re:Rap Genius Traffic Has Dropped By Over 80% by k-mcgrady on Sunday December 29, 2013 @04:22PM (#6981440)
I haven't that read much about cartels in a long time but Google's behaviour here doesn't seem to fit that of a cartel based on a quick reading of the wikipedia page you provided.