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Search engines think I plagiarized my own content My Hacker News Case Study
- semking 2y agoBeing the author, the plagiarist and the victim is a strange experience, especially when you are a senior organic growth strategist! It all started on December 18, 2024 after I shared one of my articles entitled "Google, the search engine that’s forgotten how to search" on Hacker News. This was my first time on HN. My article got 100+ comments in a few hours and the upvotes reached 80 points. Sure, that’s not much but I was happy because I discovered an intellectually curious community, clearly more technically proficient than most! And then, my critical article about Google Search got shadow-banned by… Google and Bing! Here's what happened to me and how you can protect yourself as a tiny web publisher or content creator!
- semking 2y agoIt turns out 9,300+ word articles are NOT popular on Hacker News! :)
- semking 2y agoSomeone at Mozilla apparently created links to my PREVIOUS article after reading today's case study demonstrating how Google and Bing shadow-banned the content! Thank you, whoever you are and I cannot wait to see if this will lead to major SERP changes in the coming weeks ;)
- semking 2y agoThe past article discussed in this case study is available here: "Google, the search engine that’s forgotten how to search" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42446995 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42446995 https://semking.com/google-search-real-user-feedback/ https://semking.com/google-search-real-user-feedback/