The reason it's on top of HN is almost certainly because that's the conclusion everyone jumped to. That seems to be how the word "penalize" is consistently used with respect to Google.
I agree, I am a bit surprised this is on the frontpage. What is ironic though, is than now when I search for the 30 word phrase, two scraper sites appear with the article scraped from seobook.com. ...nicely backdated by 37 seconds.
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The reason it's on top of HN is almost certainly because that's the conclusion everyone jumped to. That seems to be how the word "penalize" is consistently used with respect to Google.
I agree, I am a bit surprised this is on the frontpage. What is ironic though, is than now when I search for the 30 word phrase, two scraper sites appear with the article scraped from seobook.com. ...nicely backdated by 37 seconds.