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I'm not sure if this article has gotten flagged out of existence, given that I don't see it on the front page anymore.

But it seems a little fishy that the OP got a -50 penalty from Google due to SEO, and now the OP is trying to get a blog post featuring one anecdotal data point about Google's results being unfair to the top of HN, no? I mean, the appearances seem a bit weird.

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Just pointing out what seems to be a hypocrisy

By having only one instance to prove your point?

Show us more proof.

http://www.google.com/search?q=Mark+Zuckerberg&pws=0

Do you have stats to prove that the inbound links of the lower ranked sites are higher than Google+?

In the case of LinkedIn vs. plus.google.com using Open Site Explorer, (Best source I have) this has double the amount of linking root domains, a well aged domain and a crawlable structure.

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