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It's funny that those things reappear pretty frequently. Google is sinking pages on purpose so they buy ads. Facebook is sinking posts so they buy promoted pos
by runn1ng 14y ago
It's funny that those things reappear pretty frequently.
Google is sinking pages on purpose so they buy ads. Facebook is sinking posts so they buy promoted posts. Yelp is sinking down businesses so they buy ads.
It's possible that those are not without merit, but I am a little sceptical to those claims. In the long term, it's in their best interest to NOT downrate non-paying websites/posts/businesses.
- mh- 14y ago>Google is sinking pages on purpose so they buy ads. [citation needed]
- entropy_ 14y agoHe wasn't saying that they actually do that. He was saying that people frequently make these claims with only anecdotal evidence and therefore he's sceptical about him. Effectively, his entire post amounts to a [citation needed] :)
- runn1ng 14y agoI think there was a story like that on frontpage of hnews few days ago. I just think that once a service is as big as google/facebook, these things just happens without malicious intent. Especially if you have a culture of "hack first, worry later" as Facebook does.