Is a street preacher the right metaphor for every little blog online? UPDATE: Since this story was published, both Genius and Hypothesis have moved to undermine abuse via web annotation using their ...

Earlier today, the Observer reported extensively on reasons why some writers might prefer that services like Genius and Hypothesis refrain from imposing layers of annotation over their text, though it ...

Rap Genius was just the first step to fulfilling Marc Andreessen’s Netscape dream of letting people annotate the whole Internet. Today, the lyric explanation startup tries to achieve its destiny with ...

In 2014, while still recovering from a very public spat with Google over SEO marketing techniques that resulted in a brief suspension from Google’s search results and an 80 percent drop in traffic to ...

Popular hip-hop website Genius is well known for its innovative annotations. But now the site has been sold – at a loss – for a whopping $80 million! If you ever needed to know the lyrics of your ...

Music-annotation website Genius is accusing Google of stealing lyrics from its website and publishing them in search results. Genius is a Brooklyn-based company that transcribes and analyzes lyrics ...

If you’ve ever wondered about the words to a given song, chances are fairly good that you’re at least somewhat aware of music lyrics service Genius. In a major move, Genius has partnered with Apple ...

A few days ago, a tech investment firm Andreessen Horowitz put $15 million into a site called Rap Genius. Rap Genius is a lyrics site that helps readers figure out what the words behind a song really ...

Did you ever notice how you tend to google the lyrics of a song and then you’re not going to Genius’ website because Google is displaying them on the Search results all along? Well, Genius alleges ...

After song lyrics website Genius sued Google in 2019 for allegedly breaching its terms of service by copying its lyrics transcriptions in search results, the United ...

Until early May, when The Verge confidentially disclosed the results of my independent security tests, the “web annotator” service provided by the tech startup Genius had been routinely undermining a ...