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		om42 on May 16, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Is there a search engine which excludes th... Do you have a link to that thread where an anon google employee posted on why it occurred? Interested in what happened since I didn't realize it did.

wyck on May 18, 2020 [–]

The reason given: Legit covid information was not getting through during the fist few days of the crisis, basically made an emergency move to disable the whitelist/blacklist functionality of the algo which reverted to how it worked years ago.

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