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Re:The IRS’s Effort to Convert Its Assembly Codebase to Java by jasongill on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @01:56PM (#16378236)
I wasn't sure if "AMAFAGOPL" was a real acronym or just something you made up, so I searched for it on Google. The only result was a link to your comment - posted just 12 minutes ago. Google is getting (scary) good at indexing social content, it seems.
Re:The IRS’s Effort to Convert Its Assembly Codebase to Java by jsmthrowaway on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @02:48PM (#16378757)
There's several tiers of indexing in Google Search (it's a pyramid, with Instant near the top when that existed), and lots of social stuff is refreshed very frequently at the top of it. That is how recent Tweets show up in searches, as well.

I'd be curious how often Googlebot hits HN.

Re:The IRS’s Effort to Convert Its Assembly Codebase to Java by vkou on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @01:58PM (#16378267)
Amazon-microsoft-facebook-google-apple.