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Comment by indoordin0saur | Hacker News Reader

I wanted to know what an "XML startup" was so I googled the term and the first result that seems relevant was actually this exact comment lol. I guess this is a phrase of your own invention?

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That seemed amazing to me because it would’ve meant Google found the comment, integrated it into thier index, and then made that index available, all within three hours. I know Google is good but are they that good?

I googled “xml startup business example” their AI summarized an “xml startup” as “a business using XML as a core technology” and gave the business below as an example startup.

https://databridgesolutions.io/

I didn’t see any reference to the hacker news comment.

Most of the links google provided below the AI summary were about how to configure various XML tools to… startup. Standard link farm stuff. :)

I routinely see Google indexed HN comments within one or two hours of posting so not at all surprised by this.

EDIT: In fact I see your comment as the 5th result or so searching "XML Startup" in quotes haha.

How interesting. I also tried “XML Startup” with and without personalization and got nothing from hacker news on the first three pages of links. I had no idea there was so much variance on returned results.

Google is usually pretty on top of fast-changing sources like HN. My mind was blown more when I saw that ChatGPT seemed to ingest and regurgitate an HN comment of mine as an answer within 10-15 minutes of my posting (see the thread in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42649774). Sadly this is no longer verifiable as the answer does not match my comment, but at least it correctly answers the original request, which it did not prior to my response.

I swear it was a thing

But I find this terribly funny, so, thanks

It was definitely a thing during the dot com bubble. It was just so stupid that most probably don't talk about it much nowadays to be indexed. You'd need to somehow restrict your search history to pre 2002

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