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jackyan.com
Personal blog · jackyan.com/blogwebculture
jackyan.com is a personal blog at jackyan.com about web and culture. Since 2024, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link jackyan.com for posts on Google and AI, including search quality, AI Overviews and an account-ban story. The comments discuss those topics rather than judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /blog/2023/09/google-search-is-worse-by-design-internal-memo/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-06-26
What Hacker News says?
April fools?! "According to Google, the situation described by that Reddit poster simply isn’t how account bans work. If one account violates Google’s TOS, that particular account may be eligible for a ban, but the ban doesn’t “stick” to the hardware, and just because other people logged in on the same device wouldn’t mean they automatically get banned, too." Maybe not on purpose but this is known to be not how it w…
Comment linking /blog/2026/04/family-loses-all-their-accounts-on-google/
on “Imagine an AI future where being banned means you are now economically useless”Submitted Google's opt-out cookies still ignored, 15 years later as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI know that I've stopped using Google's search primarily because it's been intentionally[1] made a worse tool. The AI overviews sound obnoxious and I'm not surprised if they're driving more people off of the platform. I don't know what the hell is going on over there, but the systemic issues and awful decisions I see coming out of Alphabet companies in recent years paints a picture of suicidal levels of hubris at th…
Comment linking /blog/2023/09/google-search-is-worse-by-design-internal-memo/
on “As AI kills search traffic, Google launches Offerwall to boost publisher revenue”Submitted Copy editing: human 1, bot 0 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionEnshittification specifically is when a product/service/platform gets worse from the user’s perspective because the platform vendor can directly profit from user-hostile design; for example, Google intentionally serves up bad results on the first search results page so the user clicks-through to the second page of results, resulting in more advert revenue to Google[1]. …whereas I feel what you’re describing is anoth…
Comment linking /blog/2023/09/google-search-is-worse-by-design-internal-memo/
on “The Cognitive Dark Forest”Submitted How the Keyword Magic Tool made my life a living hell as a story · 1 points
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