[dang]

Discussed at the time:

Keep the Internet free and open - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4863009 - Dec 2012 (18 comments)

[system2]

Strangely no one even mentions how evil Google is in the discussion.

[subarctic]

2012 was a different time — Google had a better reputation back then.

[userbinator]

I remember 2011-2012 as roughly the time when their search results started to decline in quality, correlated with the beginnings of applying "AI" to them.