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Cloaking
Google Search Central · 0 HN recommenders · 0 recommendation months
Recommended by 0 Hacker News commenters across 0 months (2012–2023).
SignalTube analysis
Among 5 other explainer videos tagged Product, marketing & sales, the mean is 4.0 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 0 distinct HN recommenders, below that mean. Recommendations span 0 distinct months; the peer average is 4.4 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
0% of its 4 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2012–2023; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 8 minutes 47 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2011-08-18.
- Channel / speaker
- Google Search Central
- Verified runtime
- 8m 47s
- YouTube upload date
- 2011-08-18
- Hacker News mention years
- 2012–2023
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other explainer videos in Product, marketing & sales. “Shared recommenders” counts HN users who recommended both videos in the source graph.
| Video | HN recommenders | Recommendation months | Positive label share | Shared recommenders | Runtime | Upload date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CloakingCurrent video | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | 8m 47s | 2011-08-18 |
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| How Harley-Davidson Killed Itselfexplainer · FortNine | 4 | 4 | 80% | No recorded overlap | 14m 12s | 2020-05-17 |
THREE SOURCE-BASED CONTEXT POINTS
Why Hacker News recommends it
Each note combines the dataset’s stance label and short rationale; comment bodies are not reproduced. Open the HN source for the original discussion.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Chrome DevTools, Scroll Into View gets around paywalls”. Its short rationale: Google states any type of cloaking is not allowed.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Tell HN: Google should drop Quora from search results”. Its short rationale: Cited as showing cloaking violates Google guidelines.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Tell HN: Add ?share=1 to Quora URLs to display content without login”. Its short rationale: Cutts defines cloaking as serving different content to users than Googlebot.