Google reputedly hires the most educated and intelligent tech people currently in the job market. Google is also a high tech, Web 2.0 innovator. So compare and contrast the primitive approach outlined in this post............
Imagine 30 Engineers meeting in ONE ROOM at ONE TIME and discussing points that are debated hundreds of times periodically on virtually every SEO blog or forum......
Imagine each of those Engineers from: search quality, search infrastructure, Google Reader, AdSense, Feedburner, invalid clicks, mobile search, etc. – spending hours answering questions and giving advice to just a handful of people around small tables.....
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1336/1207079903_966827a979_b.jpg
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/back-from-kentucky/
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/ses-san-jose-2007-write-up/
It says more about the selfishness of those Engineers that NO ONE was motivated enough to post on on that blog or on the Google Webmaster blog and give a summary of the points they discussed and the advice they gave......
Or where they NOT allowed to?????
In that case, it says more about Google as a corporation!
Examining the picture, there are just a few people around EACH of the tables, so in essence, information that could have been shared with thousands of people around the world, was only discussed with a handful and lost forever without being archived......
LOST FOREVER WITHOUT BEING ARCHIVED!!!!!!!!
Ironically, the very purpose of that blog and the Webmaster blog IS to disseminate SEO information – so what better use could there be than to have those SAME Engineers highlight and recap info that many around the world would need. And of course, archiving it for people who in the future may discover those very posts by using Search Engine keywords....
The real sad aspect to all of this is that a post was made BEFORE the conference suggesting the very same points above (so no one can't claim the idea did not occur to them)
But this episode illustrates so much that is wrong with the mindset of even leading businesses – and even movers and shakers in our society. PEOPLE CAN NOT THINK OUT OF THE BOX. THEY DO NOT WANT GO THE EXTRA DISTANCE.
Not ONE person could think ahead. They lived for the moment and the task at hand.
It is now not surprising that those controversial posts made by SearchEnginesWeb has gotten changes in Google over the past year. There is much more to intelligence than being a great programmer or having a stellar academic background. The ability to think ahead into that 4th dimension of logic or reasoning is something one either has natively or not – it just can not be learned.
Does it surprise anyone that so many great leading companies in the past – all eventually lost their greatness. The people are fundamentally ALL THE SAME!!!
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If you were a conference attendee, you could have listened to everything they talked about. But why do feel that all information that was granted to conference attendees should be granted to everyone who didn't attend? You don't see college's giving away every course or lecture for free. Why do you hold corporations to a higher standard? |
Another way to think about it, is that a conference is intended to be a place where information is exchanged (not divulged). The feedback and questions of the attendees are valuable. Finally, conference content is routinely inadequately archived – not because of malice, just because it is such a difficult task. |
Apparently this is NOT the first time they pulled this crap.
So because on conference had it in 2005, another wanted to do it in 2007.
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum19/2631.htm
http://services.google.com/events/askanengineer_rsvp
This is a slap in the face of every Webmaster worldwide that no summaries or highlights were posted. AGAIN, no one thought enough of the public to go that extra mile.
Obviously these are selfish people who really do NOT care about the Webmaster community – they are only concern with their individual careers.
Were they getting some sort of compensation for this, so that is why it was not in their best interest to care about others throughout the world who could have benefited from archival summaries??????
Something's just not right – no matter how hard one tries to justify this type of behavior. If it happened once, PERHAPS they could get the benefit of the doubt – BUT NEVER A SECOND TIME!!!!!!
This sort of thing is unworthy of such a leading company that claims to want to communicate with Webmasters – especially when you have the nerve to urge them to report spam sites or bugs in the SERPs.
Now wouldn't be interesting if their policies changed because of this post. They obviously are going to discuss it.
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