[skeeba]

Genius is, well, genius. The company recently accused Google of lifting song lyrics from its site, reports the Wall Street Journal.

How did Genius know Google was stealing? In 2016, Genius made a few changes to the punctuation in its song lyrics. Sometimes, it used a straight apostrophe. Other times, a curly one.

Genius did this in a very specific sequence because (are you ready for this?) when "the two types of apostrophes were converted to the dots and dashes used in Morse code, they spelled out the words 'Red Handed.'"

That's how Google was caught, according to Genius.

Google denied stealing any lyrics. Instead, it claimed, the lyrics that show up in the "information panels" that pop up in a Google search are from licensed partners. Genius, however, says it found more than 100 examples of Google taking its content.

Link: https://mashable.com/article/google-geni...al-lyrics/

[Johnngnky]

Genius is, well, genius. The company recently accused Google of lifting song lyrics from its site, reports the Wall Street Journal.

How did Genius know Google was stealing? In 2016, Genius made a few changes to the punctuation in its song lyrics. Sometimes, it used a straight apostrophe. Other times, a curly one.

Genius did this in a very specific sequence because (are you ready for this?) when "the two types of apostrophes were converted to the dots and dashes used in Morse code, they spelled out the words 'Red Handed.'"

That's how Google was caught, according to Genius.

Google denied stealing any lyrics. Instead, it claimed, the lyrics that show up in the "information panels" that pop up in a Google search are from licensed partners. Genius, however, says it found more than 100 examples of Google taking its content.

Link: https://mashable.com/article/google-geni...al-lyrics/

Well, genius, is quite genius

Surely Google would have done some formatting tho, wouldn't they?

[Tracefl0w]

So Genius started creating unique patterns in its lyrics by alternating the font of apostrophes between curly and straight. When you converted the sequence of apostrophes to Morse code, it spelled out "red handed," according to the Journal.

Using this system, Genius says it found more than 100 instances of Google lifting its lyrics.

That's pretty clever.

[Drako]

That's actually incredibly smart. There's no way Google could even attempt denying these claims. I would have never thought they'd have a system like this.