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From: Sebastian

Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 12:17:55 -0000

Local: Fri, Aug 3 2007 8:17 am

Subject: Re: Google's "Don't Be Evil" slogan

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I disagree. Even preselecting threads would require knowledge and
experience most college kids just don't have. I second Adam's
statement from my own experience, Googlers do care about site owners.
That's not a new thing, I got email support from the Googleplex many
years ago, and their ongoing activities on our side of the fence prove
that they indeed care. Check jobs at Google and you'll find open
positions under "webmaster relations" like this one:
http://www.google.com/support/jobs/bin/answer.py?answer=48264
Talking with each and every Webmaster out there just doesn't scale. As
for your weird theory that Webmasters made Google, please rethink
that. Searchers made Google popular. Without Google we Webmasters
would still spam Altavista, Infoseek, Excite, Northern Light and
whatnot to generate traffic. Google gave us more trafic, and esp.
better targeted traffic, so it's more the other way round, Google made
a whole lot of Webmasters (rich).
Sebastian

PS Before you mention it, my GoogleGroupie post is here:
http://sebastianx.blogspot.com/2007/08/seos-home-alone-googles-nightm...

On Aug 3, 1:27 pm, Randy P. wrote:

> On Aug 3, 6:12 am, Dan42 wrote:

> > Adam, I don't know if you'll read this message but you should really
> > get the help of the community on this. Get volunteers to filter out
> > the 99.9% of redundant/misplaced questions. Then you can answer the
> > 0.1% of questions that really *do* matter.

> I've been saying that for years. They have billions of dollars and
> they wouldn't even have to pay people. There's thousands of college
> kids (and older) in their area that would KILL to get even a voluntary
> job at the Gplex as some kind of internship, or just to get the
> experience in the internet fields. They try and find reasons not to
> give direct help because they generally simply don't care about site
> owners. They are "too big and important" for that, they forget it's
> US THAT GOT THEM THERE in the first place! The other SE's can answer
> email, even with their relatively "limited" resources, so certainly
> could google!
> Randy

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