That epoch of Google died near on a decade ago now
Thats if its real and its not a phishing exercise to identify the ip address of posters for intelligence gathering purposes. If scan hacker news every few seconds from a variety of different IP addresses, see who is logged on and posting and then see who clicks the honeypot. Simplez!
.…it’s google.com. I’m pretty sure some smart devices ping that to check internet connectivity
No the website which highlighted an anomaly. I could spot something up with a big entity, knock out a website highlighting that when all the while I'm looking to identify the user.