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 :)

Clusty

[superpulpsicle]

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.

Re:Clusty

[Paul Carver]

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.

It's the yahoo tech news feed

[DavidNWelton]

As seen here:

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

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

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...

Say What?

[hawkeye_82]

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.

--
hawkeye

Re:Say What?

[Frankie70]

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.

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?

server troubles lately

[supernova87a]

"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?