Yes. Larry, and Google have gotten a lot of (well-merited) bad PR recently.

Sadly PR-stunts like these were, so far , only restricted to Reddit [1]. But it seems that HN has a growing user-base and can no longer escape the commercial shills and PR submissions like these.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/shill [1] http://factions.in/article/General/How_I_Turned_My_Back_On_R...