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by tylfin 2681 days ago
On the flip-side, it's easier for a large organization like Google to manipulate the post that gets voted to the front page.
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Google Docs has approximately 1 billion daily active users.

Hacker News has fewer than 1 million monthly active users.

Google is a deeply polarizing HN topic, where many of any article's comments reduce to snark about longevity of Google products, or proclamations that anyone using Google services is a fool who doesn't understand privacy.

Please tell us more about your theory of Google's astroturf marketing campaign on Hacker News.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/09/google-drive-now-has-800m-...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9220098

True, but why? To gain some Internetpoints?