Dec 26 6:38 PM

Google punishes Rap Genius

Rap Genius founders (l-r) Tom Lehman, Ilan Zechory and Mahbod Moghadam in New York City on May 1, 2013. (Brian Ach)
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The Stream (Al Jazeera)

Popular lyric page Rap Genius came under fire this week, after using questionable search engine optimization (SEO) methods known as growth hacking to gain more web traffic. Once brought to its attention, Google responded by removing the Rap Genius site from the first five pages of search results.

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