Being 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

Being 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!