There are no results for tank man • Hacker News Board

Something else that I find curious is that this entry vanished from front page for a while, and now it's stuck at the bottom, even though it has twice the points in half the time compared with post number #5 (at the time of writing).

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Post by wait_a_minute » Fri, Jun 04, 2021, 5:28 PM UTC

This needs to be upvoted to the top so that we get some answers as to why this well-known history is not searchable via such a major tech company’s search functionality. It’s the top result via Google, why is Bing so bad at this?

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Post by bb88 » Fri, Jun 04, 2021, 5:28 PM UTC

I prefer to read hacker news through the hckrnews.com interface. It doesn't removed flagged content, and tells you what was killed.

Censoring articles on censorship by tech companies just ain't kosher.

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Post by Kim_Bruning » Fri, Jun 04, 2021, 5:31 PM UTC

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Post by seanalltogether » Fri, Jun 04, 2021, 5:35 PM UTC

t-writescode wrote: post #13

There are no image results for Tank Man. Regular search results in pictures and articles.

Regular search results for me are just wikipedia articles only, with everything but the top 2 being completely unrelated. How odd

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Post by castis » Fri, Jun 04, 2021, 5:36 PM UTC

t-writescode wrote: post #13

There are no image results for Tank Man. Regular search results in pictures and articles.

The point here is that it seems extremely unlikely image search results is the actual result of a sift through the available indexed data. Meaning that some manual mechanism is responsible for the page being blank.

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Post by falcolas » Fri, Jun 04, 2021, 5:38 PM UTC

rcoveson wrote: post #2

Original HN post flagged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27394925

Given the outsized effect of flags in comparison to upvotes, I’m of the opinion that Chinese national HN members, and some subset of “no politics evar” crowd is more than enough to flag these to just shy of being dead.