Google is notoriously hard to sue. they don't settle easily or readily
Genius was caught many years doing blackhat SEO that would have gotten smaller sites permanently banned, but thanks to google's kindness was forgiven.
Genius was caught many years doing blackhat SEO that would have gotten smaller sites permanently banned, but thanks to google's kindness was forgiven.
The business isn’t kind - it’s practical. This should read “thanks to a positive transaction value Genius was forgiven”
Clearly Google seems to agree that Genius has the best results based on the efforts they've taken to steal and even hide the fact that they're stealing from Genius.
Just to be clear, Genius may be small compared to Google, but they are the de facto source of lyrics for music. Can you imagine if users suddenly no longer found Google useful for figuring out lyrics? It would genuinely cost them users switching to Bing, DuckDuckGo, etcetera.
De-platforming a customer can feasibly demonstrate having a monopoly in a given business space.
Demonstrating you have a monopoly could lead to advanced regulation.
Sounds like fuel for the case against Google...Google would normally ban sites for x but didn't ban Genius for doing x, but why? Because Google was knowingly and willfully scraping/commercializing their content.