Lyric sites are spam?
Posted by admin on 04 Apr 2008 at 9:03 am | Tagged as: gadgets, news
Here’s something that I have basically being saying for a good while: the lyric sites are by and large spam. You’ve probably checked sites for lyrics and noticed that they often same very basic level of information, a few words. There is very rarely any information about who wrote the songs, nor who the publisher is, nor (in general) who has covered the song, nor info about translations. So by Google’s standards, most are spam as they consist of automatically generated pages of copied information with no added value.
It’s a sad state of affairs. But maybe Google will sort out the boys from the men, according to this article. Check Search Engine Land. The music publishers are also approaching the sites about licensing their material, which will cause them to look at their “business model” a little more closely.
By the way, we also have a user-rated lyric search engine. You can also paste in your website if yuo have a music-related site or blog: