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Posted by bookofjoe 1/26/2026

Google AI Overviews cite YouTube more than any medical site for health queries(www.theguardian.com)
415 points | 208 commentspage 5
shevy-java 1/26/2026|
Conflict of interest.

I believe we need to do something. I see the big corporations slowly turn more and more of the world wide web into their private variant.

chasd00 1/26/2026|
> big corporations slowly turn more and more of the world wide web into their private variant.

Geocities was so far ahead of its time.

ThinkingGuy 1/26/2026||
Google AI (owned by Meta) favoring YouTube (also owned by Meta) should be unsurprising.
Handprint4469 1/26/2026||
> Google AI (owned by Meta) favoring YouTube (also owned by Meta) should be unsurprising.

...what?

lambdaone 1/26/2026|||
This is absolute nonsense. Neither Google AI or YouTube are owned by Meta. What gave you the idea that they were?
ThinkingGuy 1/27/2026|||
Sorry, I meant to type "Alphabet"
ttctciyf 1/26/2026|||
Probably asked an llm
delichon 1/26/2026|
I imagine that it is rare for companies to not preferentially reference content on their own sites. Does anyone know of one? The opposite would be newsworthy. If you have an expectation that Google is somehow neutral with respect to search results, I wonder how you came by it.
alex1138 1/26/2026|
How do I respond to this nicely without getting my comment flagged
morserer 1/26/2026||
People don't flag comments because of tone, they flag (and downvote) comments that violate the HN guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). I skimmed your comment history and a ton of your recent comments violate a number of these guidelines.

Follow them and you should be able to comment without further issue. Hope this helps.

alex1138 1/26/2026|||
I do apologize, however with that being said this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46767027 just got flagged

They do flag because of tone, or else outright things that don't fit with their agenda

(What I posted was very substantive)

grayhatter 1/26/2026|||
I feel like you completely missed the point of the rhetorical question.
alex1138 1/26/2026||
It was a stupid question/post by me, I just don't know how to respond to "why should they not preference their own site? :)"

Because... that's not how it should work? And it makes something of a case for antitrust?