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Giorgio Sironi
Personal blog · giorgiosironi.blogspot.comprogramming
Giorgio Sironi writes Invisible to the eye, a personal blog at giorgiosironi.blogspot.com about programming. Since 2009, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-02-28, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for a 2010 post on how Google search results could be used to make it look like mentions of Oracle had been erased. The linked post is cited as an example of search-result misdirection.
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A journey in web development, [computer] science, engineering: getting to know what lies under the hood -- Giorgio Sironi
What Hacker News says?
This was how some folks pretended that Google had erased all mentions of "Oracle": http://giorgiosironi.blogspot.com/2010/08/google-never-remov... I used this to prank some people on the in-house SEO team at my last job. I'd ask them if they had done anything that might be considered black-hat. Then I sent him a link to a "site:" query on Google indicating that our site had been removed from the index. e.g. http://w…
Comment linking /2010/08/google-never-removed-oracle-from-its.html
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