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Genius used a similar technique to check whether Google was scraping their lyrics. Apostrophes in selected song lyrics spelled out "red-handed" in morse code.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/genius-we-caught-google-red-hande...

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Interesting... Google caught out Bing stealing search results a number of years before that - https://searchengineland.com/google-bing-is-cheating-copying...

I guess engineers at Google have too short of tenure to actually remember the precedent.

> Google blames the issue on third-party licensing partners. "The lyrics displayed in information boxes on Google Search are licensed from a variety of sources and are not scraped from sites on the web," the company said in a statement.

Did you read the link?

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