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Ok down-voters. I left the search industry over my refusal to participate in search manipulation. So which part are you down-voting. The idea that it exists? or

by abz10 10y ago

Ok down-voters. I left the search industry over my refusal to participate in search manipulation. So which part are you down-voting. The idea that it exists? or do you think I'm some alt-right conspiracy nut? I'd actually like to know. I don't care about points but I'm getting the message that I belong on HN and I'm perfectly happy to quit on the assumption that HN punishes dissent.

diyseguy 10y ago
I believe we are getting downvoted because Google does a lot of perception management, esp in places like this. See also the Asch Effect.
- abz10 10y ago
  Thanks for letting me know. That makes sense. I'd actually love work with HN to flush out perception management behaviours.
  - diyseguy 10y ago
    Not hard to flush out. Reasonable comment pounded into oblivion because it mentions X Co. Net effect: people afraid to speak ill of X Co.
Buge 10y ago
I didn't downvote. But I don't believe google does paid search manipulation. The only time I've heard google accused of that was the Hillary and Trump liar autocomplete thing, which was completely false. Of course there are people manipulating search results from the outside, SEO is a job. But are you saying you have evidence that google is doing manipulation, or just that other companies do it?