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Google Techs, Webmasters Mingle

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-don't-know-those-dance-moves dept.

Steve Nixon writes "Free-flowing beer, live music, karaoke and arcade games kept the party raging at the Googleplex the other night, but the real action was unfolding inside a sterile conference room at Google's headquarters. That's where the cunning internet entrepreneurs who constantly try to manipulate Google's search engine results for a competitive edge were trying to make the most of a rare opportunity to match wits face-to-face with the company's top engineers."

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  1. If I were google by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    1. Identify search engine manipulators
    2. Invite them to a party
    3. Poison their drinks
    4. optional - Cut them open, staple their guts to their forheads, take pictures and send to their moms.
    5. Profit.

  2. server troubles lately by supernova87a · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Free-flowing beer, live music, karaoke and arcade games kept the party raging at the Googleplex the other night..."

    is that why gmail has been down for the last two days?

    1. Re:server troubles lately by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      A somewhat-related annecdote:

      Back in 1999 before the crash of the internet economy when everyone fully intended to be retired before the age of 40, I was working at one of the poster-children for the internet revolution. The day of the IPO, the lead sysadmin made some router changes intended to make it more difficult for persons outside the company network to access company servers. He ended up making a mistake that resulted in much of the production network being inaccessible from the office network.

      In all the joy, champaigne and revelry of everyone becomming an overnight millionaire, no one noticed this until there was a problem with the service later that evening, well after the IPO party had started. However, by the time it was noticed, the sysadmin was too drunk to stand up and the two other people in the company with the knowledge necessary to fix the issue were unavailable (one was going on a ski vacation and could not be reached and the CTO was off doing what, if I heard the story correctly, ended up getting him and the company sued for sexual harrassment).

      So the end result was that we ended up having a pretty severe outage for about 36 hours because of a company party. I seriously hope that Google stays on top of things better than we did though.

  3. Re:Pointless by ozric99 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Taco has google stock, duh.

  4. Re:Say What? by Frankie70 · · Score: 4, Funny


    I mean, it reads like a random collection of thoughts about Google.


    For a moment, I thought you were describing slashdot in general, not this particular article.