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

10 points by sizei8ht 7 years ago | 4 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?

sctb 7 years ago |

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

sizei8ht 7 years ago | |

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

Corrspt 7 years ago |

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

Daktest 7 years ago |

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