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Comment by sct202 | Hacker News Reader

Google doesn't look like it indexs any subreddits under the np.reddit.com subdomain.

That's a red herring. All subreddit content is available under both www.reddit.com and np.reddit.com. (I'm not 100% sure why Reddit has both.)

Example:

r/ChapoTrapHouse is a left-leaning political subreddit (and in the interest of true apples-to-apples comparison, also has a content warning by Reddit like the earlier example).

"Reddit ChapoTrapHouse" has top results for www. or np. from all search engines.

* Google: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChapoTrapHouse/ [1]

* DuckDuckGo: https://np.reddit.com/r/ChapoTrapHouse/ [2]

* Bing: https://np.reddit.com/r/ChapoTrapHouse/ [3]

* Yahoo: https://np.reddit.com/r/ChapoTrapHouse/ [4]

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=Reddit+ChapoTrapHouse

[2] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Reddit+ChapoTrapHouse

[3] https://www.bing.com/search?q=Reddit+ChapoTrapHouse

[4] https://search.yahoo.com/search?p=Reddit+ChapoTrapHouse

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I'd love a simpler explanation than "Google being politically biased Big Brother", but I can't see one.

> All subreddit content is available under both www.reddit.com and np.reddit.com. (I'm not 100% sure why Reddit has both.)

np.reddit.com stands for "no participation". np.reddit.com disables comment and voting. It's intended so that links to niche subreddits from popular subreddits like /r/BestOf don't result in a flood of outsider activity that disrupts the niche subreddit.

"np" is being treated as a country code, like every other two letter string. xy.reddit.com also works. Country codes were meant for localization.

Somehow moderators decided to start using it for "no participation", and many subreddits use custom CSS to disable commenting and voting on np.reddit.com/r/whatever. But np.reddit.com with custom styles off works just like normal reddit.

I'm sure Nepal is very offended.

The singular form of "data" isn't "anecdote".

If you search "news" on Google, the 2nd result is Fox News[1] (first being Google News). Half the suggested articles by Google on my phone are from Fox News, even though I've never clicked on any article from there. I do not use that to conclude that Google is politically biased.

1. https://www.google.com/search?q=news

It's generally poor form to direct link a Google search as a reference as you can never be sure if the results will be the same tomorrow or if the person clicking it will get personalized results that differ from those you get.

I agree with that too. That's how GP was providing "evidence" for their claims, however, so it seemed a fitting way to respond.

The parent poster was inputting the search term "Reddit The_Donald"

(https://www.google.com/search?q=Reddit+The_Donald)

Whether or not you are logged into Reddit, the first page of Google results (and I suspect the rest of them) don't display the actual link to the /r/The_Donald subreddit. It _does_ link to a bunch of articles about how the sub was quarantined, and the first result (for me) is a wikipedia page.

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