Overgeneralizations about HN are my weak spot! Actually Scott and I bumped three Google submissions off the HN front page this afternoon for that very reason. The goals here are substance and variety. To be fair, some of those blog posts are substantive articles, while others just read like corporate press releases, and the same is true on apple.com.

It's strange how some users get indignant about certain bigcorps in favor of other bigcorps and vice versa. I suppose the Greeks were that way about their gods.

I don't have favorite corporations. I don't think HN should have any content from companies about their own products (exceptions for things like mea culpa articles).

While you may push back on some, almost daily I see content from Google taking up one of their products where if It wss on a Microsoft or Oracle site for example submission would never see the light of day.

Google just hides their press releases in blog posts.

If you see it happening again you're welcome to email us a link at hn@ycombinator.com. We're open to being persuaded that an article is not as substantive as it should be to make the HN front page.