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Blind Five Year Old
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Blind Five Year Old is a personal blog at blindfiveyearold.com about web and business. Since 2010, 23 different Hacker News readers have linked it 30 times, most often “It's GOOG Enough”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link these posts on Google search, author identity and rel=author markup for SEO, and how search ads are shown. Commenters cite them as references rather than judging them.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- It's GOOG Enough4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-11-09
- /how-to-implement-rel-author3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-07-24
- The Filter Bubble Isn't Evil Unless You Are2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-12-12
What Hacker News says?
For what it is worth, Google has favored macro-parasites over micro-parasites. The bigger companies have access to the ears of market regulators, etc. The average small publisher or affiliate site has almost nobody care if it disappears. Part of the most recent Google update was penalizing high authority trusted sites for publishing off topic content from third parties. There is a concept called "goog enough" explai…
Comment linking /its-goog-enough
on “Google confirms the leaked Search documents are real”Submitted Google's Evil Plan is Simple (and not so evil) as a story · 9 points
HN discussionEric Schmidt: The people who built the Internet did not get a stable version of identity; You need identity, in the sense that you are a person, this is who you are these are your friends and so on … The issue on the Internet is not the lack of Facebook, the issue on the Internet is the lack of identity. (from http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/09/eric-schmidt-on-gauging-goo... ) See also http://www.blindfiveyearold.com/…
Comment linking /how-to-implement-rel-author
on “I’ve been suspended from Google+”Submitted Acquisition SEO and the Mid-Life Crisis of Search Results as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI think he means related searches as in http://www.blindfiveyearold.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/g... If I understand his comment, if you select the term "sweatshirt" your add is also displayed when people search "American Eagle," and that may be yourself and you're wasting money.
Comment linking /wp-content/uploads/2011/06/google-related-searches-competitors.png
on “Ask HN: Why do companies buy ads when they are the top result in search?”Submitted AuthorRank could be bigger than all Panda updates combined as a story · 6 points
HN discussionExactly if you know who authored a peice of content then you can get a pretty good idea of how authoritative it may be. Google is pretty good about finding content but you want to know that the content is actually good (no content farms) if you know who wrote it then you can get a pretty good idea of how authoritative it may be. This goes into some more detail about this: http://www.blindfiveyearold.com/google-plus-…
Comment linking /google-plus-identity-and-seo
on “Eric Schmidt describes Google+ as an "identity service"”Submitted Twitter (not Facebook) Will Be The Brand Advertising Platform of The Future as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis is totally awesome Ray. One quick suggestion - integration of Rel=Author ( http://www.blindfiveyearold.com/how-to-implement-rel-author ) which I think is huge in the content-based SEO world.
Comment linking /how-to-implement-rel-author
on “The Web Developer's Interactive Cheatsheet for SEO and the Open Graph”Submitted Why Google Sees 'Temporal Void' and 'The Dreaming Void' as Synonyms as a story · 3 points
HN discussionGoogle does indeed use my data in order to personalize search results. I remember being impressed to see that for a query that could have several different meanings, the search engine gave me results centered on my engineering field, which was what I was looking for. I am not that convinced that it blindfolds you to some services or opinions though. So far I have only seen differences in understanding the context of…
Comment linking /the-preference-bubble
on “Show HN: Advertising-Free Search-Engine”Submitted It's GOOG Enough as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI, too, need an identity. But not one controlled by a corporation ultimately responsible to its stockholders. Note three lines of guidance (restated in http://www.blindfiveyearold.com/how-to-implement-rel-author ) from Google: > The TL;DR version for implementing rel=”author” is that it requires three specific links. >> A link from your blog post or article to your author page using rel=”author” >> A link from your…
Comment linking /how-to-implement-rel-author
on “Google: You need identity”Submitted The Filter Bubble Isn't Evil Unless You Are as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Ridiculous Power of Blog Commenting as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Closing Google Reader Sucks For Me, But Is Dangerous For Google as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Modern State of Google as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted It's Goog Enough as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Understanding Search Query Syntax as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is Click Through Rate a Ranking Signal? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Totally Mathematical Reason Why Social Matters To SEO as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted SEO is Stone Soup as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Does the Hummingbird Say? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Authorship is dead, long live Authorship as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Ultimate Guide to Google+ SEO as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted SEO Freeloaders as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Google Search Personalization as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Facebook Comments and SEO as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Have Facebook and Google Killed Permission Marketing? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Robots.txt that obey Asimov's three laws as a story · 1 points
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