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Dunno, I am seeing the same link in screenshots on reddit and twitter but neither archive.is nor archive.org has a copy of it.

Jinx!

> We added a placeholder since there are rumours swirly, and they're from > reputable sources - coincidentally the timelines for releases (around 2 months) > align, and it's on a M…

Not sure where you get the "one step removed" bit. It is a content farm, at least in the places where it isn't simply copies of Wikipedia or autogenerated text.

The results may be directly measured but they are not real time. Click on the 7 Day view and you can see that the latest numbers are from Feb 22, before the change was rolled out. …

Actually, I was wrong. The results are US only, so (for now, anyways) you can view what the results looked like before the update by changing the language parameter (&hl=) or the &…

kalvin, there would be no way to do that unless you were prepared and happened to store the queries beforehand. However, if you take a look at the Alexa page for one of the sites i…

Ok, I know no one is going to see this, but in looking for this thread I just discovered that the original one I was discussing is now showing up in the "Popular" list, albeit at #…

It's pretty rare that my site shows up here, and my actual readership isn't huge, so I don't think that is the case. Any way to find out though?

When you say #38 you mean this discussion and not the article that someone submitted today, correct? Is that what you think happened then, it was simply voted down? Who would be ab…

And, of course, I just realized - if it is a moratorium on discussing HN itself, then there is a chance that this post will never get seen (or answered) either...

It appears that HN has put some sort of ban on my site from appearing on the homepage, regardless of the community votes. Someone submitted a piece I wrote today, it did send some …

They also probably should have tested to see if it happened with results other than the ones in the #1 spot.

This makes a lot of sense, and would have be easy enough for Google to test as well, creating some tiny, brand new, never before heard of test search engine that Bing would have no…

They just shut off the cell networks too: http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/01/31/5962180-egyp...

Sad, a caller from an hour ago said they expect to have their phones disconnected also, which would render this useless, I think: http://twitter.com/speak2tweet/status/321972047393…

Firesheep, which allows people worldwide to steal other people's Facebook passwords over public wifi, comes out in October and they still don't redirect to https login by default. …

No, they also banned sites like MegaUpload (Google Suggest stops at the "u") and Rapidshare (which is causing collateral damage, since they stop suggest at the "i" with that one).

No, they are already being crawled and indexed by Google. Jason was lying about that. He banks heavily on the fact that it takes significantly more energy for others to check his f…

re: But Savings.com isn't "the site being looked for". Yes, it is, the searcher doesn't know that though. That's Google's job, to rank the most relevant sites to the query. If thos…

Savings.com != Mahalo.com. There is no reason to rank Mahalo... if that is the site being looked for then rank Savings.com instead. It is what is known as a "thin affiliate" site, …

This is very much a critique against Google, but more towards the pass that they keep giving Jason. Jason is most definitely not playing the game better than most, and in fact his …

Wait a minute... "Our ultimate objective is to delete the data consistent with our legal obligations and in consultation with the appropriate authorities." Delete the data that the…

When I go a suitable period of time with no Wordpress 3.0 users contacting me for a de-hacking job, then I will upgrade. :)

Sorry about the hijack, but you're not on Rackspace, are you? Wordpress sites there have been getting hacked quite a bit lately, it looks like they have a security issue.