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Hacker News is impossible to please when it comes to Google recently. This is something that is virtually impossible to spin as a bad thing and somehow almost e

• honr 8y ago
  Not really surprising to some of us. Definers Public Affairs and a couple of other firms have been working hard for it. At some point the hacker news community might become more immune to paid-for opinion shaping, but that time is not now.
• netwanderer3 8y ago
  There's no denying that Google of today is no longer the same as Google of the past, however the values their services provide to society are still enormous and far greater than most other corporations out there. We have learned that Facebook were indeed running various online campaigns to smear Google's reputation, just to take the public heat and focus off themselves. Many people fell for those traps during that time. I personally feel that those effects are still lasting, or at least still lingering around the community even until this day.
• forgottenpass 8y ago
  Google has spent through all their goodwill and then some. Don't expect positive responses until they get those numbers back in the black.