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I realize "did you actually read the article" is against HN guidelines, but what else am I supposed to say when I see this at the top of the comment thread?

I mean when you say "Google can't please all of the sites all of the time, or all the visitors.", I wholeheartedly agree, but this blog post was excellently sourced with data that shows exactly how Google raising sites that any reasonable human would say are considerably shittier than this site that is getting down ranked. It also seems pretty clear that the things that have changed are Google's ranking algorithm at specific points.

> They probably use machine learning too. There may be no reason for the lost rankings other than a wind change caused by some updated parameters in an OKR chasing model.

That is literally what TFA says in the very first section: "Some people believe they have lost control of their AI ranking systems, ..."

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I think I said a lot more than TFA on those points.