[blhack]

>Does anyone else find it disturbing that google employees are bending over for pg/hn?

Umm...no. They're not tweaking the algo, they're explaining to PG that he should stop blocking the crawlers, or that he should verify the site in google webmaster tools, then change the crawl rate.

[larrys]

Umm...Yes.

Seems like "bending over" to me:

"but I'm pinging the right people to ask whether we can get this fixed pretty quickly"

[jiggy2011]

"get this fixed pretty quickly" != "change the search algorithms"

I can usually get the hacker news by just googling for "hn"