Hacker News Reader

> That is despite the Daily Mail writing multiple stories a day about his comments around that time and employing him as a columnist.

Sounds like they take a manual approach to manipulating their search ranking; spam is worthy of downranking.

View on HN

Doesn't part of PageRank involve sites linking back to the dail mail? Isn't it possible they just aren't referenced as much as others?

There are hundreds (if not thousands) of other signals that the Google search engines considers over and above back-links. This includes which links users click on the results.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com