Why did this get so many votes and comments

5 points by lootsauce 4y ago ↗ HN

Odd to me that this post got so much activity. It seems to be wholly unremarkable yet over a thousand comments and up votes? Is it just me here scratching my head?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29772136

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NtochkaNzvanova 4y ago ↗

"Google search quality has been declining for years and is now unusable" is an evergreen meme on Hacker News. Almost every discussion of Google as a company on HN includes some form of this discussion. Google is one of the companies people on HN love to hate.

mikewarot 4y ago ↗

The search quality HAS plummeted. This is orthogonal to my love/hate of Google.

rajnathani 4y ago ↗

I honestly had the same reaction, two theories besides the truth of the “evergreen” explanation made by the other commenter:

(1) It was by Michael Siebel, the head of YC right now (hey we’re also on a YC website now).

(2) New Year’s, so there are less news topics to discuss and upvote instead.

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