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Why do so many Google employees appear to plug their stuff nearly every day?
Good or bad or other, Google seems to be the only company that engages in this sort of cheerleading on HN. Does anyone else think this is a strange state of affairs?
If it's a new service announcement, there will be an army of people to answer questions and solve support problems. If it's a story about a competitor, there will be an army of people prodding you to try Google instead.
Even if this isn't an organized part of their media strategy it still smells a bit off, no?
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- meowface 10y agoI think we'd need to do some real analytics on this to see if this is true. But if it is true: people hawk their stuff or promote their company on HN all the time, including on negative articles about competitors. I have no idea why you think only Google does this, because I've seen it from startups and big tech giants alike. Google is a huge employer and Googlers could easily be one of the most overrepresented demographics on HN. In that light, it'd be pretty expected.
- carsongross 10y agoI suspect most of the big companies do it, and brigade pretty hard. Winning tech infrastructure mindshare is inherently extremely valuable. I do it for my crappy little library and I know if I had the resources of Google or Facebook... I'd use them.
- juice_bus 10y agoI noticed there was one (or more) Google employees out during the Amazon outage yesterday, didn't hear a peep from Microsoft pushing Azure.