i just googled this: http://www.google.com/search?q=site:news.ycombinator.com+Hacker+News+bans+Google+and+all+other+search+engines http://www.google.com/search?

i just googled this: http://www.google.com/search?q=site:news.ycombinator.com+Hacker+News+bans+Google+and+all+other+search+engines http://www.google.com/search?q=site:news.ycombinator.com+Hac... and found this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=165279 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=165279 one of the top replies: My vote is to constrain growth as much as possible, at least that which comes from stupid sources. Smart hackers will find this site just fine without Yahoo or MSN, probably even Google. As "evil" as blocking sites and crawlers may sound, I think these types of measures will be necessary to preserve the quality of content here. Whatever actions further that objective have my vote.