toprankblog.com— At the recent WebmasterWorld Pubcon conference, Google's Matt Cutts spanks Yahoo and MSN for having private parties and sticks up for mom and pop websites.
Nov 22, 2006View in Crawl 4
There's nothing wrong with private party's and I don't think Matt is saying that... he just wanted to be "among the people" this time around. If you've ever heard him talk, he's very pro-Yahoo and pro-MSN. He talks about Ask all the time, and he doesn't even use Blogger for his personal blog - he uses WordPress. I'm sure he's proud to be a part of Google, but he's about as unbiased as a corporate voice can get.
Alrighty, digg must be quiet on Thanksgiving, or it was webtickle's title that got this dugg. :) I'm the engineer at Google who did this interview with Lee Odden/toprank.No rip was intended toward Yahoo! or MSFT; it just worked out so that I didn't go to either of their parties. I heard from several people that said they enjoyed the Y!/MSN parties.More context on the interview if you're interested: a bunch of people were giving some sites a hard time for making newbie mistakes. Things like not knowing how their FTP program worked, so they could only update the root page on their site. I was pointing out that there's a *lot* of less savvy mom/pop websites out there, and at Google we try to figure out how to rank websites correctly even if their website does silly stuff like HTML mistakes.
@mrfoosYes, you're abso-f**king-lutely right, especially since coding is awfully expensive and hard to learn. Also, since it has to comply with all those standards you have to pay too much... but who gives a crap about standards anyway, that's for real life, not the internets...(Since you may not get that, that is sarcasm)If your site complies with standards, Google will index it better.
1021Nov 23, 2006
you mean like 95% of all digg front pagers?:yawn: digg sucks early in the morning.
etruscanNov 23, 2006
There's nothing wrong with private party's and I don't think Matt is saying that... he just wanted to be "among the people" this time around. If you've ever heard him talk, he's very pro-Yahoo and pro-MSN. He talks about Ask all the time, and he doesn't even use Blogger for his personal blog - he uses WordPress. I'm sure he's proud to be a part of Google, but he's about as unbiased as a corporate voice can get.
mattcuttsNov 23, 2006
Alrighty, digg must be quiet on Thanksgiving, or it was webtickle's title that got this dugg. :) I'm the engineer at Google who did this interview with Lee Odden/toprank.No rip was intended toward Yahoo! or MSFT; it just worked out so that I didn't go to either of their parties. I heard from several people that said they enjoyed the Y!/MSN parties.More context on the interview if you're interested: a bunch of people were giving some sites a hard time for making newbie mistakes. Things like not knowing how their FTP program worked, so they could only update the root page on their site. I was pointing out that there's a *lot* of less savvy mom/pop websites out there, and at Google we try to figure out how to rank websites correctly even if their website does silly stuff like HTML mistakes.
tordekNov 23, 2006
@mrfoosYes, you're abso-f**king-lutely right, especially since coding is awfully expensive and hard to learn. Also, since it has to comply with all those standards you have to pay too much... but who gives a crap about standards anyway, that's for real life, not the internets...(Since you may not get that, that is sarcasm)If your site complies with standards, Google will index it better.
aerobeNov 23, 2006
I think it's good you stopped by Matt - context can be elusive with digg posts.