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Come on people, "Politics" is right in the title!
by asdlfj2sd33 17y ago
Come on people, "Politics" is right in the title!
- jws 17y agoIt deals with politicians, but it is all about search engine hacking. They were monitoring searches in real time and modifying the page to try to harvest current hot queries. The second to the last paragraph is political blather, but get through it to the last one where they name the company that did it. Too often the culprits go unnamed.
- michaelfairley 17y agoFrom http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html: "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon." Candidates using dirty SEO tricks? Sounds like an interesting new phenomenon to me. There's quite a bit of intersection between politics and technology, especially as technology spread through our society, so I wouldn't be so quick to write off a post just because it involves politics. This story is equally interesting regardless of whether it's about a senator, a big corporation, an athlete, or just about anything/anyone else with some degree of fame.