Ask HN: Why Does Hacker News pay for Google Ads?

10 pointssizei8ht7y ago4 comments

When I Google "Hacker News" the first result is sometimes a Google Ad for Hacker News. Why does Ycombinator take out ads for Hacker News if they are first in natural results already?

4 comments

sctb7y ago

We don't! Bizarre. Would you like to email us a screenshot to hn@ycombinator.com?

sizei8htOP7y ago

I'll email you a screenshot now. Just Googled and still seeing the ad.

Corrspt7y ago

Hum, it could be to prevent that someone from having a place on top of the first result for hacker news.

Daktest7y ago

Is it possible that some 3rd party unrelated to HN or YC is running these ads? Weird...

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