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John W. DeFeo

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John W. DeFeo's personal blog at superhighway98.com covers web and culture. Since 2020, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “How SEO Ruined the Internet”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.

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13mentions?
6HN people?
2020–2020first – last linked?

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog as an example of search and SEO favouring popularity over accuracy, and cite its SEO post when discussing ads on the web. The comments do not judge the writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Here is a 100-link directory that is reminiscent of how I remember the web of the 1990s. The web that I fell in love with.

Most-linked posts?

  1. How SEO Ruined the Internet
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-04-06

What Hacker News says?

  1. dang · 2020-04-01
    Looks like the OP domain itself is a version of that. https://www.superhighway98.com/

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    on “Google emphasizes popularity over accuracy”
  2. midef · 2020-04-06

    Submitted How SEO Ruined the Internet as a story · 479 points

    HN discussion
  3. FridgeSeal · 2020-04-24
    > How has the web been tainted with ads? * https://www.superhighway98.com/seo * http://jacek.zlydach.pl/blog/2019-07-31-ads-as-cancer.html * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnPmg0R1M04 * https://voxeu.org/article/advertising-major-source-human-dis... * https://www.forbrukerradet.no/side/new-study-the-advertising... * https://danielmiessler.com/blog/google-amp-not-good-thing/ * https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/1…

    Comment linking /seo

    on “PWA Store”
  4. midef · 2020-03-31

    Submitted Google emphasizes popularity over accuracy as a story · 443 points

    HN discussion
  5. midef · 2020-06-12

    Submitted The Staggering Cost of Bad Cops as a story · 20 points

    HN discussion
  6. midef · 2020-09-28

    Submitted Addiction Ruined the Internet as a story · 16 points

    HN discussion
  7. midef · 2020-11-03

    Submitted [Deleted] as a story · 13 points

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  8. midef · 2020-10-07

    Submitted Politics Is a Game of Addiction as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  9. midef · 2020-06-02

    Submitted Blind Injustice as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  10. ancoraallora · 2020-07-14

    Submitted Using Google Trends to Predict U.S. Elections as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  11. lledd · 2020-10-04

    Submitted Link Rot Analysis as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. midef · 2020-11-02

    Submitted A Sick Man as a story · 1 points

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  13. duck · 2020-04-10

    Submitted Sourcing PPE for Essential Workers as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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