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Re:Ask HN: Did anyone use ruinmysearchhistory and get Google... by nitrogen on Friday June 10, 2016 @05:54PM (#11880401)
I didn't follow the original link, but maybe the point was to get lots of people on a list to show how silly lists are?
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Re:Ask HN: Did anyone use ruinmysearchhistory and get Google... by curiousgal on Friday June 10, 2016 @06:09PM (#11880495)
Maybe, but it depends on whether the location of the query is taken into account. In that case, the majority of the people who clicked through (which is based in the USA/Europe) won't get picked up as opposed to the small percentage of people located in the MENA area.
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