The Guardian gets the wrong year for Florida?

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Went Hot: Dec 13, 2007 - 10:20 am
Posted By: MattCutts 790 Days ago
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk
Category: SEM

The Guardian says that "update Florida" happened in Christmas 2004. But Florida happened in November 2003. Who fed The Guardian bad dates? Fess up. :)

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from g1smd 790 Days ago #

Votes: 3

If that’s the UK "Guardian" newspaper then be aware they are known to the masses as "Teh Grauniad", due to their long history of spelling, grammar, and factual errors over the years.Indeed, when there was some sort of explosion near their building I believe a rival newspaper had "BNAG!" in the sound bubble above the building shown in the cartoon drawing of the event.

from planetc1 789 Days ago #

Votes: 3

Searching Google for "Google update Florida" returns a date of November 16th, 2003 (right in the snippet), but that was probably too much work. :)

from Burgo 789 Days ago #

Votes: 0

@ g1smd:"BNAG!"Hardest laugh I’ve had all week!

from mjwalshe 789 Days ago #

Votes: -2

tell me about it :-)I once had a product (X.400 mail reader) I was 3rd line suport for by the gruniad’s Jack Scholfield turned out he had messed up his install on the latest version of dos :-)Still wondered if i was because when i fixed the Teleocm Gold Acounts Recivable system and took the 6-7 months worth of direct debits on one hit and put into the red :-)

from Harith 789 Days ago #

Votes: 0

Matt,Now that "update Florida" is history. Would you be kind to tell us; what exactly happened during that update? Is it true that you had applied the first "Anti-SEO" filter in humankind history? ;-)

from dannysullivan 789 Days ago #

Votes: 0

Yeah, that date made me do a double-take.

from theGypsy 789 Days ago #

Votes: 0

ok, ya’ll know yer search geeks when this kind of trivia gets play. Speaking of broad statements, I like this one in the post;’The founders of Google never realised how commercial the net would become’... that one certainly caught my eye. I bet ya didn’t know S&B were myopic did ya?

from seosuresh 789 Days ago #

Votes: 0

I wonder what is coming or I doubt it already happened this year, We all know that something or the other happens at this time of the year. Any Tips Matt:) I had one of my client effected( I dont know for sure why), I discussed with Matt and he doubt that there is something to do with the Data Center. And Danny also said that He never heard of anything like this. The site which i am talking about is www.actionquest.com the problem with this site is at the begining of the every month the Rankings goes up for the keywords and at the end of the month the rankings drops. I wrote the URL down in that little magic book of Matts where he always carries. Waiting to see some kind of solution or the problem itself. I know last year I had one problem with a Local listings and Matt had it solved in a weeks after informing in the Pub con 2006. Wonder if anyone else have seen somthing like this as well. I doubt that this is something similar to the Florida update ???Thank youSuresh

from Harith 789 Days ago #

Votes: 0

Suresh,How old is that site (actionquest) you have just mentioned?

from seosuresh 789 Days ago #

Votes: 0

Thanks Harith for looking into it. Untill now I dint find any answers to the problem. It would be great if someone can find what is it that is causing the problemThe site has been registered in 1996, but recently like 3 months before in August they did a Redesign.

from JohnWeb 789 Days ago #

Votes: 0

Matt Cutts is batting 1.000, two submits, two hots. Nice.http://sphinn.com/user/view/history/login/MattCutts

from Harith 789 Days ago #

Votes: 0

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from johnandrews 789 Days ago #

Votes: 2

3 thoughts:1. If I sphin every post matt submits, will Matt like me better and do me favors?2. Is this thread looking just like a Matt’s Blog thread, and is that a GoodThing?3. I doubt the Guardian would have gotten so much attention if it published the correct date!

from Harith 788 Days ago #

Votes: 0

johnandrews"1. If I sphin every post matt submits, will Matt like me better and do me favors?"YES..YES. Matt would like you much for that and would give a boost to your sites PageRank..and would make ALL your sites pages rank at top 10 of Google’s serps. And.. Matt would invite you to visit him at Googleplex and give you one of his fancy T-Shirts with motto "Matt Cutts Makes Me Google" :-)"2. Is this thread looking just like a Matt’s Blog thread, and is that a GoodThing?"No it doesn’t look like Matt’s blog thread. And thats a bad thing ;-)"3. I doubt the Guardian would have gotten so much attention if it published the correct date!"Agreed!

from iBrian 788 Days ago #

Votes: 0

"Searching Google for "Google update Florida" returns a date of November 16th, 2003"Actually, I believe I made first call on Florida first on November 12th 2003:http://www.v7n.com/forums/google-forum/1303-google-updating.html