Many times, especially if you are a music lover, you will have come across the lyrics of your favorite songs on the Google. This feature is certainly very convenient, but the website Genius.comclaims that Google uses fraudulent means to steal content from its page and display it on its own.
Genius claims that traffic to the site has dropped significantly because Google publishes lyrics on its own platform and some of them have been taken directly from its own site.
But how is Genius so sure that Google is stealing lyrics from it?
According to the website, the apostrophes in the lyrics of the songs are what revealed Google's actions. Genius set a trap by alternating between straight and curved apostrophes in the songs it hosts.
This was done in a very specific sequence, as when these two types of apostrophes are converted into Morse code, they reveal different patterns of dots and dashes.
In essence, this tactic is a kind of "marking" in Morse code, which proved Google's guilt in the matter, as there were more than 100 cases where the lyrics of the search results included these exact apostrophes.
Google, for its part, denies any claims of theft. The company states that the lyrics displayed in its search results come from licensed partners.
However, we all know that in recent years, Google has started to provide its users with more and more information directly on the search page. While this is a feature that saves valuable time for users who don't want to click through to a website, it certainly isn't good for websites that depend on those clicks.
