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Alexandre Storelli
Personal blog · alexandre.storelli.fr · on HN as destwebphilosophyscience
Alexandre Storelli's personal blog at alexandre.storelli.fr covers web, philosophy and science. Since 2018, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Advertising and mixed motives (2022) [for search engines]”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-15, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post on Brin and Page's 1998 'Advertising and Mixed Motives' argument, using it to say ad-funded free search has perverse incentives. The only comment cites it as support for its own point.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
On this site you will find the latest topics I’ve been interested in, be it in the fields of science, technology, society, management or philosophy.
Most-linked posts?
- Advertising and mixed motives (2022) [for search engines]2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-08-05
What Hacker News says?
Here you are https://pod.storel.li/u/alexandre then, with a script executed periodically, I convert the Diaspora* Atom feed into a static page: https://alexandre.storelli.fr/
Comment linking /
on “Bringing Blogging to the Fediverse”Submitted Advertising and mixed motives (2022) [for search engines] as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://alexandre.storelli.fr
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted Measuring the energy impact of hybrid peer-to-peer / CDN video delivery as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> Which really, I feel, demonstrates the perverse incentives of free search. These pages display ads, so upranking them means more revenue for google, and you do the opposite. Google's creators had correctly identified this problem and their knowledge of it is why early google was good. https://alexandre.storelli.fr/advertising-and-mixed-motives-... > Advertising and Mixed Motives (Sergey Brin & Larry Page, 1998) >…
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on “Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users”