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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. Clusty by superpulpsicle · · Score: 5, Interesting

    That's why I like www.clusty.com. Everyone is concerned about elevating their website so that they are the first page/topranking of Google's results. For example the word "RAM", is memory, animal and technically sex related.

    Clusty would have split into 3 separate cluster trees. In google it would just be out of balance.

    1. Re:Clusty by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Google is doing an inconsistent job lately of associating trademarks with their owner companies. I was looking into espresso machines a few days ago, and noticed that when I looked up "La Pavoni" on Google, the actual company website at lapavoni.com was nowhere to be found among the usual flood of reseller spam.

      It looks like the recent GoogleDance has corrected this particular problem, though, since it's now the first non-sponsored link. But I've seen the same problem before when trying to use Google to find a company's website, rather than those of twenty million identical-looking resellers.

  2. Re:It's the yahoo tech news feed by JPriest · · Score: 2, Interesting

    They also have an RSS feed and for Klipfolio users, the Klip is here. You can click setup in the Klip to get just yahoo tech news. Not a bad site.

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