Comment by fortran77
5 years ago
The story he links to, about the "Online Slang Dictionary" being removed from google search because the founder of Urban Dictionary was friends with googlers (true) and (allegedly) used his influence is fascinating:
http://onlineslangdictionary.com/pages/google-panda-penalty/
You may want to read these posts:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24109168
My plans to trickle out details of my conversation with the Google employee were put on hold due to a massive change in my life responsibilities due to the novel coronavirus, but it’s my intention to resume soon.
As I say on the website, this will culminate in my releasing the MBOX formatted file of the conversation, with full headers.