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Anecdotally, despite the Google incident and their name change, they're still the place I look for lyrics having used them twice this week alone. That said, I haven't the faintest idea about their revenue strategies and how those might work for them, but I wish them well. I think they did the lyrics thing better than anyone previously and often find myself wondering why I can't have it integrated with, say, Google Music and such


> wondering why I can't have it integrated with, say, Google Music and such

It is integrated with Spotify although it seems to pop-up randomly for me. I've never figured out why some songs show info from Genius or how I'd get to it intentionally if I wanted to (but I admit I haven't really tried).


Indeed, browsing song lyrics seems more like a feature than a product.


Well, the product is supposed to be the annotation system. The lyrics were just an initial use of it.


I think they came up with that whole explanation after the fact, as evidenced by the fact they never really followed through on building an actual system that could be used in the varied ways they described


Also evidenced by the fact that they were initially called Rap Genius


They had a few things, but not a complete system like they did for lyrics:

An example: https://genius.com/Barack-obama-state-of-the-union-2016-anno...


It's still my go-to as well. I really appreciated the idea, but it just seemed to drown in a sea of lyrics sites, and the general fact that most people seem to be disinterested in spending nay real time on lyrics.


It's a bit different from Genius, but I really like bilebili's annotation system.




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