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Comment by jhuckestein | Hacker News Reader

Please edit the title.

"Which websites dropped the most in the latest Google algorithm change? - Quora" reads as though the answer to the question is Quora.

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Agreed.

Taken from HN's Guidelines:

  If the original title includes the name of the site, please
  take it out, because the site name will be displayed after 
  the link anyway.

I think that's subjective.. I had no problem understanding the title as the poster intended.

Of course, it is subjective, but that's the point. I understood the same thing as jhuckestein.

I wouldn't've clicked if I hadn't understood it that way - I don't really care about the sites that dropped, but I know Quora has decent content and if it was the most penalized, that's a huge problem with those Google changes!

Fair enough, but the domain is already shown next to the submitted link on HN. It might not confuse you, but it apparently confused other people, and it's really redundant information anyway.

headlines dependent on subjective interpretation = bad

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