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

[rando3826]

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."

[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.