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Frederic Lardinois

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Frederic Lardinois writes SiliconFilter, a personal blog at siliconfilter.com about startups, business and web. Since 2011, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 102 times, most often “Google+ vs. Twitter: Planned Community vs. Organic Growth”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.

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102mentions?
15HN people?
2011–2021first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 73 in 2011

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Frederic Lardinois's siliconfilter.com posts as sources on Bing and Google news, such as Google's search test, Bing features and maps, and Facebook data requests. Commenters cite them as background.

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Google+ vs. Twitter: Planned Community vs. Organic Growth
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-07-11
  2. Google Engineer: Google+ Is a Knee-Jerk Reaction
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-10-12
  3. Getting Facebook to Give You All Your Data is Easy (in Europe)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-09-27

What Hacker News says?

  1. From https://www.siliconfilter.com/hiybbprqag-google-claims-bing-... it seems Google engineers laid a trap by using IE with Bing Toolbar and Bing Search Suggestions enabled. Not clear what was gathering the data, but this article doesn't say whether the Google engineers clicked on the bogus-keyword's result link. If they did, then clickstream as you say. If they didn't, something in the IE+Bing mix scraped links fro…

    Comment linking /hiybbprqag-google-claims-bing-is-copying-its-search-results/

    on “Brave buys a search engine, promises no tracking, no profiling”
  2. Submitted IE6 Usage Falls to Under 1% in U.S. as a story · 192 points

    HN discussion
  3. hmmmm. Bing added this feature way before Google did and not even a single mention in the article... http://siliconfilter.com/bing-maps-for-mobile-goes-indoors-w...

    Comment linking /bing-maps-for-mobile-goes-indoors-with-mall-and-airport-maps/

    on “Inside Google’s Fascinating Stash of 10,000 Indoor Maps”
  4. Submitted Why Twitter Should be Very Worried about Google+ as a story · 86 points

    HN discussion
  5. You can also consider filing a request to get one of those CDs with all data on file about you sent to you (See http://siliconfilter.com/getting-facebook-to-give-you-all-yo... ) I'm not sure if it includes images but if Facebook didn't actually delete the images you might have a shot, especially if you mention you just want the images restored which might be easier for them to do than make your custom CD. Also; if y…

    Comment linking /getting-facebook-to-give-you-all-your-data-is-easy-in-europe/

    on “Help HN: Friend just deleted her life by mistake (Facebook and iPhoto)”
  6. Submitted Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia is Losing Contributors as a story · 81 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Germany vs. Facebook: Like Button Declared Illegal, Sites Threatened With Fine as a story · 74 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Kevin Rose: We Made Lots of Hiring Mistakes at Digg as a story · 61 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Bing: What’s More Evil Than Satan Himself? 10^100 as a story · 56 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Dartium: Google’s New Dart Programming Language Comes to Chromium as a story · 46 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted A simple tool to check if Lulzsec has leaked your personal data as a story · 34 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Report: The Rumors of Google+’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated as a story · 27 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Google: Read/Write API for Google+ Not Coming Anytime Soon as a story · 20 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Microsoft launches Bing Booster program for startups that want to use Bing as a story · 16 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted The New Windows 8 UI: Trying to be Too Many Things to Too Many Devices? as a story · 16 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted How Selling My Startup Led Me to Take a Vow of Middle Class Poverty as a story · 13 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Alfresco Brings Its Enterprise-Level Content Management to Small Businesses as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Google-Backed Measurement Lab to Distribute Free Routers for Broadband Testing as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Google Promises to Make Google Docs Available Offline Soon as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Firefox 11 Beta Now Includes a Style Editor, SPDY Support & a 3D Page Inspector as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted Digital Music Sales Finally Beat CDs and Vinyl for 1st Time in 2011 as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted Google I/O Postponed by 2 Months, Will Have to Code for Tickets as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted Product videos matter: Amazon breaks into online video top 10 as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted Is Twitter Now Going After Third-Party URL Shorteners, Too? as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted Google launches Rapportive/Xobni-like widget for Gmail as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted Google’s WebP Takes on PNG as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  27. Submitted Google Engineer: Google+ Is a Knee-Jerk Reaction as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  28. Submitted Even Google is Tired of Needlessly Paginated Content as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  29. Submitted Want to Join Our Private Beta? Pay Up as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  30. Submitted The Internet Explorer IQ Hoax and the State of Tech Blogging as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion

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