Google Techs, Webmasters Mingle

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."

Comments

Wow

[cybrthng]

Another google story?

Cool as it is, it just aint that cool.

Mod me down if you want, call me biased but there is tons of other "news for nerds" besides some corporation who is after your dollar.

For some cool search news, Nutch .07 just came out - http://nutch.org/ - i'm loading it up on mozdex through next week :)

Re:Wow

[Alex P Keaton in da]

It is just the nature of the beast- Throw in a tech company and a normal story about a company PR/Picnic event becomes tech news. This same story, but at GM or Toyota would be in an automotive trade journal. A normal small town library event that would usually be relegated to page 10 of a small town weekly newspaper ends up in political magazines if a politician shows up. It is just the way it is.
It is an interesting story for me, even if I would never ever admit it, because secretly, I would like to party at the googleplex. But I would never admit it. The same way most men would like to party at the Playboy Mansion, many nerds (like me) would love to party at the googleplex. And the Playboy Mansion.

Plagiarism

[Anonymous Coward]

Steve Nixon writes

No, Steve Nixon didn't write any of that. The Associated Press did, and Steve Nixon copied and pasted it into the story submit box.

But...

[BuddyJesus]

What were the actual results of them going face to face? I mean, it's great to talk about all of that free beer and arcade games, but I think at the very least people here on slashdot would like to know how Google vs. Exploiters turned out.

Evil?

[codeshack]

So apparently "don't be evil" doesn't explicitly prohibit consorting with evil, inviting evil over for cocktails, having a few drinks with evil and in a moment of passion revealing heretofore unknown details of PageRank... If Google's livelihood is contingent on destroying these people, I hope they put something in the fruit punch...

At some point...

[confusion]

...does google's popularity start to wane? There's a growing sense of frustration with them, and I've found that many other search engines yield better results, so it is a matter of time before internet users at large start using something else?

Granted, I think the reasons that their results are not good is that there are SO many of these black hats trying to pollute their index, so in a sense, they are falling victim to their own success.

Jerry
http://www.cyvin.org/

Pointless

[hexi]

What is the point of the article? What is new in the article? Why is this on slashdot? What the hell?

Re:It's the yahoo tech news feed

[jrockway]

In case you haven't noticed, Slashdot is like Playboy -- you're missing the point if you read it for the articles. You can get links to news stories anywhere; Slashdot is worth reading because of the comments. Nowhere else do I notice such a high concentration of interesting commentary, and because of that, I read it every day.

If you don't like it, just read BoingBoing and comment there. The Slashdot community can probably live without your complaining.