Earlier this week, music lyrics repository Genius accused Google of lifting lyrics and posting them on its search platform. Genius told The Wall Street Journal that this caused its site traffic to dro
Rap Genius made three big moves today to further its goal to annotate the world. The founders tell me it's raised a $40 million Series B led by Dan Gilbert and joined by previous investor Andreessen H
Rap Genius, the startup that wants to "annotate the world," sees the departure of co-founder Mahbod Moghadam today, owing to Moghadam's ill-advised annotations on the rambling manifesto of Elliot Rodg
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. "Ge
Google apparently cares more about giving the best search results than punishing spammers, as it's returning lyrics site Rap Genius to its high rankings for searches after it was exiled for SEO spam 1
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 result
How could a site for explaining rap lyrics make good on its $15 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz? Because it's also a collaborative text-annotation platform that enterprises are asking for.
There are not a lot of startups who've both raised $15 million from a top investor like Andreessen Horowitz but have also told Mark Zuckerberg and Warren Buffet to fellate them. We're not shy about co
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heroku.com/">Heroku</a>, the popular cloud application platform, may not be as fast today as it was three years ago. Yesterday, <a target="_blank" href="http://rapg
Ben Horowitz loves hip-hop, but in an interview with TechCrunch he outlined a deeper vision behind his firm's<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/10/03/andreessen-horowitz-iinvests-15-million-in-rap-g
Here's an investment out of left field, but not really. Andreessen Horowitz is dropping $15M into startup <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2011/11/04/rap-genius-rock-poetry/">Rap Genius</a>. It's not j