[greatzebu]

> Google does everything in a very orchestrated campaign. Bash Adwords or Search here and you will see "them" show up to defend it.

I would assume this is because a lot of Google engineers read Hacker News and they want to defend their work, rather than because of an orchestrated PR campaign.

[cromwellian]

Actually, no. I never read HackerNews of my own free will. What happens is, there is a team in the PR division that scans all the comments for anti-Google bias. Then company wide, Matt Cutts, and sometimes Larry Page, sends out an all hands email, and asks all Googlers to visit HN and vote down the comments, and post rebuttals. Stock Bonuses are given for the best rebuttals, and if you get someone hellbanned, you get to fly on Larry's private jet, although I've heard they have killed that perk now that the cheap jet fuel deal from NASA fell through. Ah well.