On the flip-side, it's easier for a large organization like Google to manipulate the post that gets voted to the front page.
Hacker News has fewer than 1 million monthly active users.
Google is a deeply polarizing HN topic, where many of any article's comments reduce to snark about longevity of Google products, or proclamations that anyone using Google services is a fool who doesn't understand privacy.
Please tell us more about your theory of Google's astroturf marketing campaign on Hacker News.
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