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Not sure about point 14; I mean, if she liked me that much then she'd be playing with something other than bookmarks while I was in the shower! :P
Hey - congratulations from 'us lot' as well! :)
Also glad that you were able to stay plugged into your networked life.
I'm not sure what Google are trying to say here; privacy is important but so is our design? Or that they made a change but it wasn't something forced on to them (they found a mutually okay solution?) Or... ?
I think privacy issues are a much hotter topic here in the UK than they are in many other countries. This doesn't surprise me but Google should have expected this.
Hey now. There are certainly two healthy sides to this debate but it's not forget that a number of patent applications from Google discuss this very possibility. A key sentence from the Hilltop algorithm says;
"The problem is, how can we distinguish an expert from other types of pages? In other words what makes a page an expert? We felt than an expert page needs to be objective and diverse: that is, its recommendations should be unbiased and point to numerous non-affiliated pages on the subject."ftp://ftp.cs.toronto.edu/pub/reports/csri/405/hilltop.html
I should also say that The Times didn't get that insight from us although I feel that I would have agreed its a valid angle but rather more complex than they suggest.
Hey! Congratulations and thanks for finding the time to help moderate us all! I guess I better start being good now, huh?
Nice analogy! I would probably extend the 'treat the web as your wife/husband' to include "treat the web as your wife/husband/xbox"... but, yeah, I'm a geek! :)
Heh. I let Lyndsay know about the blog post... and she pointed out she's currently at one of our MD weekends with our /female/ MDs for Italy and Germany!
It certainly stood out from the masses of unread RSS headlines I had!
Ah. Two of my favourite ways to spend time :)
I shouldn't shy from a Monkey Bowling contest on the Wii any day! Slightly more obscure but I'm proud of my successes in Blue Dragon one of the rare xbox 360 RPGs.
Want to kick my backside? Make me playing a racing game. I'm truely dire - after a while, Xbox Live couldn't find anyone of the same ability as me on Project Gotham 2 - all the system could find were people much better than me!
I miss the early streetfighter and mortal kombat too!
We still have a SNES and (one of the early) streetfighters hooked up in one of our meeting rooms in the office. Between some busy search marketing there's always time for a dragon punch or some yoga fire!
So you really think Google is going to penalise any commercial webpage that contains links? Every retail site, any page that talks about a TV ad or any page that talks about a celebrity?
You think that's what Matt Cutts was threatening? I don't. I don't at all - but that's the implication of some of these blog posts. Sounds like there's no clarity of understanding to me.
Oh. I think there's a threat. I think Google are now crystal clear - buy or sell links and you're in trouble. It's in the guidelines.
I don't think it is accurate to try say that Google's gunning for all sorts of links. Look at the comment I got on my blog post;
"I guess everyone who ever wrote about reeses pieces in the movie ET should no follow all links within their pages since it was a paid product placement which is no different than a sponsored post. Or the Junior Mints in the classic episode of Seinfeld. Or every car that James Bond has driven or watch that he's worn, too, since they were all comercially motivated"
That's not right, is it? That's not what Google/Matt is saying. That's the correction.
How are items that someone's decided to share publicly and which weren't written by them considered "private"?
I think it's fairly safe to say that the SEO part of Performics will be sold off first. In fact, if you look at the latest job title changes from within Performics you might well reassure yourself that Google's not going to hang on to that unit.
I'm slightly surprised to find JohnWeb's comment down at -1 in votes. I've voted him back up - it's a direct comment but I don't think it's an unfair question. :)
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Good idea Donna. I'd even like to see a way to sort the search so that the most/least sphinns came top.
I think this is a classic case of the "grey link". All around the internet you'll see links which have occurred because of a financial relationship. Google will look at the stats; Google.com doesn't seem to be selling links and many of the sites listed on the page won't have the link buying signature - as a result these links will count. Links which appear on the web due to other financial relationships and where the buyer/sellers don't seem to be engaging in link buying will also count.
Good catch g1smd. We don't see too much duplication at sphinn but as the grows so will the problem. I'm surprised this one happened as the sphinns use exactly the same citation URL. I also think if the search function was changed to list the newest first it would be easier to see if a breaking news story had already been broken on sphinn.
Sadly not, Matt whisked through the stats at some speed! It was all I could do to write them down!
Looking forward to this. I think it'll encourage me to comment more - sometimes I sphinn a story and think "I know why I like it... why haven't others sphunn it?" Now I'd worry it might get unsphunn (desphinned!) so I'd be more likely to comment on what I thought the sphinn-worthy insight was. Which is good.
Ha-ha! Made you hot. Do I get a prize? (No one suggest an alternative revenue stream to link selling should be sphinn selling, please!)
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