Tesla started selling a literal whistle in recent days, presumably as an SEO thing to bury this news with something more banal. Pretty slimy stuff.
I thought you were joking - "there's no way this is true"
Direct link: https://shop.tesla.com/product/cyberwhistle?sku=1715672-00-A
What kind of nightmare dystopia is this timeline.
> As Boris Johnson described his hobby of making model buses out of wine crates and painting happy passengers at the windows, it looked like an off-the-cuff revelation.
> Google searches for “Boris Johnson Bus” led to negative stories about Mr Johnson’s EU referendum stunt in which he travelled on a coach emblazoned with the claim that Britain sent £350 million a week to the EU. This claim led to a failed attempt to prosecute Mr Johnson.
> After the radio interview these reports were pushed out of the search results.
Of course it could just be that Boris really likes to make boxes, just like Tesla really likes to make whistles.
[1]https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/it-s-not-fare-doubters-sa...
Also discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21122806
Anyone thinking that you can burry « whistleblower » with « whistle » (and it’s actually called cyberwhistle) has not checked how SEO works since 1998.
I mean, you could have just tried a google search before making accusations.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1465838829370228737
For me, 3 of the top 10 SERPS for "tesla whistleblower" are stories about this whistle product.
That's not exactly burying anything, more like promoting.
Burying would be if you were to search for "tesla whistleblowers" on Google and Google just giving you links to the whistle product, not allowing you to find the information you are looking for.
But that's not how Google, or any other major search engine, works, or has worked for a very long time.
So saying that's why Tesla/Elon are doing it, is quite simply false.
A reputation management company would be really happy with that result. They wouldn't expect one theme to fix it all.