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This is comparing pre-Christmas-day traffic to Christmas-day traffic. Many people spend December 25th doing very different things than they do other days of the year.

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A good way to account for this is to look at year-over-year change. It looks like on Dec 25 last year, they took a 13% hit[1]. So it appears that their 60% hit today should be tempered a bit, to account for this. Even still, I think we can say that this is a very bad day for Rap Genius - especially when you consider that they have a lot of artificial publicity due to the currently unfolding scandal.

[1] https://www.dropbox.com/s/lidlugtdycdrrnx/Screenshot%202013-...

The next top result for lyrics thats 'Quantified' on that site: https://www.quantcast.com/lyricsfreak.com?qcLocale=en_US shows a slight drop.

Edit: Google Trends for 'lyrics' the past month http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=lyrics&date=today%201...

They're on page 7 for their brand name. Christmas probably had little to do with that drop.

https://www.google.com/search?q=rap+genius&oq=rap+genius&aqs...

I'd say it probably has something to do with Google penalizing them.

A lot of people get new albums from the holidays and would want to look up lyrics.

either way, 1 data point isn't a trend. wait and see is the best course of action.

If you compare last years Quantcast traffic on christmas day to this years.. it wasn't that much of a drop compared to the few days surrounding it.

Like nobody posting to Facebook in the morning, combined with completely crashing Steam in the afternoon.

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