{"id":43261,"date":"2019-06-17T16:22:23","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T21:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=43261"},"modified":"2019-06-17T16:24:34","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T21:24:34","slug":"morse-code-in-straight-vs-curly-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=43261","title":{"rendered":"Morse code in straight vs. curly quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Smith, \"<a href=\"https:\/\/bgr.com\/2019\/06\/17\/genius-vs-google-lyrics-results-on-search-copied-from-lyrics-site\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Genius hid a Morse code message in song lyrics to prove Google was copying them<\/a>\", <em>BGR<\/em> 6\/17\/2019:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Did you ever notice how you tend to Google the lyrics of a song and then you don\u2019t bother clicking through to Genius\u2019s website because Google displays them right on the search results page? Well, Genius alleges that Google has been copying its lyrics for years and posting them directly on Google Search, thus preventing visitors from going to its own site. And here\u2019s the best part: Genius says it hid a Morse code message within some lyrics on its site to prove Google has been stealing them and reposting them word for word. [&#8230;]<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">To catch Google, Genius watermarked lyrics with the help of apostrophes, alternating between straight and curly single-quote marks in exactly the same sequence for every song. When turned into dots and dashes, the apostrophes spell the words Red Handed, which is a smart trick.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>See also Richard Priday &#038; Henry T. Casey, \"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomsguide.com\/us\/google-stealing-song-lyrics-genius,news-30370.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Google Allegedly Caught Stealing Song Lyrics &#8230; Because of Punctuation<\/a>\", <em>Tom's Guide<\/em> 6\/17\/2019.<\/p>\n<p>Hard-to-see Unicode variation in things like quote curlytude are the source of infinitely annoying text-processing bugs, so it's nice to see someone getting some use out of it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Smith, \"Genius hid a Morse code message in song lyrics to prove Google was copying them\", BGR 6\/17\/2019: Did you ever notice how you tend to Google the lyrics of a song and then you don\u2019t bother clicking through to Genius\u2019s website because Google displays them right on the search results page? Well, Genius [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awesomeness"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43261"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43264,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43261\/revisions\/43264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}