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If HN existed when Google was founded, I'm sure we would have torn Larry and Sergey apart too. People rarely comment online when they like something. People wi
by cj 4y ago
If HN existed when Google was founded, I'm sure we would have torn Larry and Sergey apart too.
People rarely comment online when they like something. People with opposing or differing opinions tend to be over represented since the same people are more likely to be vocal about their feelings.
- necovek 4y agoI am pretty sure majority of the HN crowd was largely supportive of Google when it was founded. But it was a different Google back then: pure no-ads search results (and remember, this was the time of banner ads and paid search placement). Heck, I wore a Google t-shirt I got from them proudly, and recommended all my non-techie friends and family switch to it from Yahoo and Altavista and whatnot. It was only a few years down the line that, relying on word of mouth recommendations from geeks up to that point, they started considering ads as the business model.