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		skndr on Dec 25, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Has Officially Penalized Rap Genius For Lin... 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.

siliconviking on Dec 25, 2013 | [–]

For what it's worth, they use Yahoo's search API.

seoguy on Dec 25, 2013 | [–]

100% agreed, google cut off their nose to spite their face here.

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