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From original source: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1631716

That's really quite something. I had lost count around 2006 (youtube) but, wow!, so many acquisitions I never even heard of happened before 2006. I wish we could see a similar graph of the products that Google developed on its own. Would it look this long and prestigious or is Google just a gobbler of smaller companies after all?

Interesting to see some clustering around the dates. I've only scanned the graphic quickly but I can see a series of successive acquisitions related to different areas. e.g maps is one that appears to stand out (e.g a number acquisitions from late '04 to mid '05)

reminds me of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1648065 :)

IIRC, this graphic was actually mentioned in the Reddit discussion. The op didn't seem to think it was 'spammy' per se, but it is clearly lacking in demonstrable value (that is, vs simple text)

I agree, after seeing that reddit IAMA some time ago about infographics and spamming for search engine rank, I immediately thought that too.

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/d7e24/my_job_was_to_ga...

EDIT: Sorry scrrr, didn't realize you already pasted the link.

the links in the footer and the domain name support your theory.

All I see is "Forbidden - Users from your country are not permitted to browse this site."

Our site gets a lot of spammers from India and other countries asking us to outsource work to them. That was fine but recently we've started doing lots of split testing and the spammers were throwing off our data so we had to take some steps to clean up our data so we can make better decisions. Sorry!

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I agree, though the difference between HN traffic and spammer traffic is that spammers will fill out the contact form, which counts as conversions which is a lot worse.

In either case, I have disabled my tests as well as the country blocker so you should be able to see the site now. Hopefully Visual Website Optimizer will add ability to test just certain countries soon.

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