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loremmtoday at 12:47 AM7 repliesview on HN

I truly have no idea what this website is saying https://generalresearch.com/


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DrewADesigntoday at 1:07 AM

It kind of reminds me of those fake tech ads those guys put up in the NYC subway:

https://www.instagram.com/p/DZacltqHMjT/?img_index=8&igsi=bT...

skinfaxitoday at 12:51 AM

Why it's Transactional Systems for Ephemeral Tasks, don't you know? No but same here. The other pages lead to more confusion.

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muragekibichotoday at 3:34 AM

Perhaps they're targeting a super specific niche. Like somebody who sees WXET Ephemereal and yelps in triumph "that's my quant!".

rajamakatoday at 1:44 AM

I think it's a satirical website aimed at poking fun at corporate-linkedin-speak

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sswanertoday at 3:19 AM

“ General Research combines coordinated operations to identify and neutralize foreign actors using technological advancements, international covert operations, and networking analysis as an Internet Service Provider.”

What is so hard to understand????

MikhailTaltoday at 4:55 AM

As usual, the real tldr is in the privacy policy https://generalresearch.com/supplier/privacy-policy/notice-t...

> General Research Laboratories, LLC (“GRL”) is an aggregator of market research surveys in multiple marketplaces for business customers. GRL does not typically host consumer surveys which are conducted by other consumer-facing organizations....

So, just a middleman to give you fake/shady at best survey responses to pad your numbers, so big enterprises/concultancies can have data that say whatever they want. The rest of the website is just BS

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tourist2dtoday at 1:04 AM

It smells like they don't know what they're doing. Had a lol at the mission page accidentally implying their customers are unethical though:

> Our Customers

> Ripe with fraud, labor exploitation, political polling manipulation; our customers demand the best tools and security ...

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