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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. It's the yahoo tech news feed by DavidNWelton · · Score: 4, Informative

    As seen here:

    http://news.yahoo.com/i/528

    a fairly good percentage of these go on to appear as slashdot stories.

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    http://www.welton.it/davidw/
  2. Say What? by hawkeye_82 · · Score: 5, Informative

    What exactly is this article about?
    I mean, it reads like a random collection of thoughts about Google.
    IMO, not one iota of useful information.
    News for nerds? Very debatable.
    Stuff that matters? Certainly not.

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    hawkeye

  3. Re:Clusty by Paul+Carver · · Score: 4, Informative

    I just searched Google for dodge ram and every single result related to Dodge Ram trucks. The official sites were at the top, including sponsered links, and there were lots of other relatated sites. Nothing non-truck related on the first page.

    Looks to me like Google functions flawlessly in this case. If a person can't be bothered to type dodge when it's a Dodge Ram they're looking for that sounds to me like PEBKAC.

    That would be like going to any of the mapping web sites and typing in your street name without city or state. Just dumb. Names get reused, deal with it, be specific.