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Earliest trending thread about this topic was 'Google Exposed User Data, Feared Repercussions of Disclosing to Public ' [1] linking to WSJ [2]. There's a relev
by niftich 8y ago
Earliest trending thread about this topic was 'Google Exposed User Data, Feared Repercussions of Disclosing to Public ' [1] linking to WSJ [2].
There's a relevant moderator post [3] on the Google PR piece thread [4], which suggests that concerns about the WSJ article's paywall have resulted in a manual moderator intervention to let the Google PR piece inherit the WSJ article's rank on the page. This is unfortunate, because a company PR piece that buries the lede is hardly equivalent to a critical news report.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18169027 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18169027 [2] https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-exposed-user-data-feared-repercussions-of-disclosing-to-public-1539017194 https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-exposed-user-data-feared... [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18169719 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18169719 [4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18169243 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18169243