Is a street preacher the right metaphor for every little blog online? UPDATE: Since this story was published, both Genius and Hypothesis have moved to undermine abuse via web annotation using their ...

Earlier today, the Observer reported extensively on reasons why some writers might prefer that services like Genius and Hypothesis refrain from imposing layers of annotation over their text, though it ...

Genius has added a one-button tool allowing users to report any harassment or abusive comments after some users complained about its new website annotation tool. By Gil Kaufman Responding to criticism ...

Music-annotation website Genius is accusing Google of stealing lyrics from its website and publishing them in search results. Genius is a Brooklyn-based company that transcribes and analyzes lyrics ...

The company has often received bad press in the past—both as a result of the antics of cofounder Mahbod Moghadam (who was finally ousted from the company last May) and the site's early reputation as a ...

Rap Genius was just the first step to fulfilling Marc Andreessen’s Netscape dream of letting people annotate the whole Internet. Today, the lyric explanation startup tries to achieve its destiny with ...

After song lyrics website Genius sued Google in 2019 for allegedly breaching its terms of service by copying its lyrics transcriptions in search results, the United ...