Apparently Google hates us now • Hacker News Board

Google neither hates nor loves any of us, the only thing it cares about as an institution is cramming as many advertisements in front of as many people as it can get away with to generate increasingly ridiculous piles of money.

This is not meant to be a defense of Google, which is (like virtually every large corporation) completely sociopathic.

Re: Apparently Google hates us now

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Post by charliebwrites » Wed, May 20, 2026, 5:12 PM UTC

righthand wrote: post #20

hungryhobbit wrote: post #18

They're a wiki. Wiki spammers are relentless now. Source: a small wiki I help manage, for an obscure game with On a popular wiki, and it sounds like this one was fairly popular, I imagine even CAPTCHA's won't be enough to stop wiki spammers. If those spammers were posting more than just "buy my penis pill" garbage (e.g. they were putting links to malware sites), Google probably, and somewhat legitimately, saw them as…

Social sites should have all have a tree-based invite system. This would allow wiping out spammers and their enablers in a single hit. It would allow vetting of good actors too.

That’s literally how Facebook started

I remember begging my older step brother for an invite since he had the college email to get in

Re: Apparently Google hates us now

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Post by arikrahman » Wed, May 20, 2026, 5:13 PM UTC

cess11 wrote: post #21

Perhaps they're decommissioning search in favor of LLM:s.

This aligns with their Google Zero doctrine, keep all info internal and make the goal for the user to hit 0 external websites.

Re: Apparently Google hates us now

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Post by pcdavid » Wed, May 20, 2026, 5:13 PM UTC

scrollop wrote: post #11

drcongo wrote: post #3

https://xcancel.com/pokemoncentral/status/205712380740463825...

Thank you

This might be useful: https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/toxcancel (Redirects to xcancel.com (a mirror of x) when the browser is about to load an x.com page).

Re: Apparently Google hates us now

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Post by bogota » Wed, May 20, 2026, 5:14 PM UTC

hungryhobbit wrote: post #18

They're a wiki. Wiki spammers are relentless now. Source: a small wiki I help manage, for an obscure game with On a popular wiki, and it sounds like this one was fairly popular, I imagine even CAPTCHA's won't be enough to stop wiki spammers. If those spammers were posting more than just "buy my penis pill" garbage (e.g. they were putting links to malware sites), Google probably, and somewhat legitimately, saw them as…

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Re: Apparently Google hates us now

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Post by logicchains » Wed, May 20, 2026, 5:14 PM UTC

georgemcbay wrote: post #23

frouge wrote: post #9

I can even tell you that Google hates us all

Google neither hates nor loves any of us, the only thing it cares about as an institution is cramming as many advertisements in front of as many people as it can get away with to generate increasingly ridiculous piles of money. This is not meant to be a defense of Google, which is (like virtually every large corporation) completely sociopathic.

All large companies are sociopaths, but few tech companies treat their paying customers with the level of contempt that Google does.

Re: Apparently Google hates us now

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Post by CalRobert » Wed, May 20, 2026, 5:14 PM UTC

righthand wrote: post #20

hungryhobbit wrote: post #18

They're a wiki. Wiki spammers are relentless now. Source: a small wiki I help manage, for an obscure game with On a popular wiki, and it sounds like this one was fairly popular, I imagine even CAPTCHA's won't be enough to stop wiki spammers. If those spammers were posting more than just "buy my penis pill" garbage (e.g. they were putting links to malware sites), Google probably, and somewhat legitimately, saw them as…

Social sites should have all have a tree-based invite system. This would allow wiping out spammers and their enablers in a single hit. It would allow vetting of good actors too.

Interesting to compare this site and lobste.rs for that

Re: Apparently Google hates us now

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Post by zeitg3ist » Wed, May 20, 2026, 5:15 PM UTC

hungryhobbit wrote: post #18

They're a wiki. Wiki spammers are relentless now. Source: a small wiki I help manage, for an obscure game with On a popular wiki, and it sounds like this one was fairly popular, I imagine even CAPTCHA's won't be enough to stop wiki spammers. If those spammers were posting more than just "buy my penis pill" garbage (e.g. they were putting links to malware sites), Google probably, and somewhat legitimately, saw them as…

We have very good anti-bot system set up with a good number of Cloudflare fine-tuned rules, limited permissions for newly created accounts, and a very dedicated team of volunteers that patrol the recent edits constantly. I cannot exclude that somewhere on a rarely visited page (out of 37k+) there is a spam link, but I doubt it’s the reason for the deindexing. I think this would also appear on the Google Search Console.