Ask HN: Why Does Hacker News pay for Google Ads?
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? We don't! Bizarre. Would you like to email us a screenshot to hn@ycombinator.com? I'll email you a screenshot now. Just Googled and still seeing the ad. Hum, it could be to prevent that someone from having a place on top of the first result for hacker news. Is it possible that some 3rd party unrelated to HN or YC is running these ads? Weird...