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Ask HN: Why is Google #1 result for “alphabet” abc.xyz?

1 points by rando3826 ↗ HN
It's been that way since the day it was announced.

Google has been promising it doesn't put it's own results first[1]. But this fly's in the face of that, and it feels disrespectful, I'm forced to see a result which deserves no where close to page 1 because google wants to promote it's brand.

[1] http://www.engadget.com/2015/03/20/ftc-report-google-search-bias/: "While the FTC didn't sue Mountain View for its anti-competitive practices, it got Google to promise to change its ways."

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nostrademons
They got a lot of links to abc.xyz when they announced the name change. Think of every major news source linking to it. People don't talk about the regular alphabet a lot online, and when they do, what would they link to?

Nothing nefarious here. It's the same reason that [python] shows a whole bunch of links to the programming language and one news story about Monty Python, with no mention of the animal. Or why [jaguar] has 2 links, 3 ads, and a knowledge panel about the car, a bunch of tweets and news stories about the sports team, and only one link about the cat. Google shows you what people talk about, not what's in people's heads.

rando3826
Are you kidding? It's not in the first 10 pages of bing or yahoo. Being the #1 result is obviously done artificially.