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 More options Aug 3 2007, 10:50 am
From: JLH
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 14:50:44 -0000
Local: Fri, Aug 3 2007 10:50 am
Subject: Re: Google's "Don't Be Evil" slogan
BlueWillow,

You got a response, a great one, hopefully you come back and post your
concerns here.  I can't say that I agree with Adam answering your
inflammatory thread, it's a dangerous precedent to set.  When the
squeaky wheel get's the grease, the rest of the wheels start
squeaking.  That aside, you've got their attention and I'd take
advantage of it now.

Goodluck

....Ignoring the rest of the Rick1 ranting.

On Aug 2, 7:23 pm, Adam Lasnik wrote:

> BlueWillow,

> Sorry to hear about your frustration.  Can I assume that you're upset
> about a webmaster-related issue that you're finding confusing or
> aggravating?  If so, Sebastian is absolutely right:  there are great
> folks in this group that are laudably up for helping out.

> Did you just want a Googler paying attention to your feedback?  We
> have an entire multinational team that scours this group, as well as
> international blogs and forums to better understand webmasters'
> concerns.  We really can't respond to the majority of posts around the
> world, but I think you'd agree that it's better for us to be actually
> building, troubleshooting, and improving things.

> We used to offer e-mail support for webmasters, but found that we were
> answering nearly the exact same questions zillions of times a year.
> "How can I add my site to Google?"  "I'm trying to find info on [foo]
> for my high school paper.  Can you help me, please?"  "I want to
> return the sofa I bought.  I don't like it anymore, and I want a
> refund!" (I'm actually serious about this last one; we got an enormous
> number of questions that had nothing to do with Google, much less
> Google Search but -- since people use Google everyday -- they wrote us
> anyway.)

> So we set out on ways to do a better job really helping more people...
> especially webmasters.  Our Webmaster Help Center is now in about
> twenty languages.  We have, I think, Help Groups in more than a dozen
> languages.  And -- what especially excites me -- we're the only search
> engine in the world to offer comprehensive free diagnostic and
> analytics tools to webmasters (Webmaster Tools and Analytics)...
> again, in many languages.

> *  *  *

> Can we do more?  Absolutely.  A colleague and I are personally leading
> training internationally this September to help more Googlers work
> with webmasters.  We have exciting plans to make our Help Center even
> more useful and comprehensive, and we're working hard to find ways to
> get information to and from even the "smallest" webmasters around the
> world.

> But even with a growing number of dedicated Googlers... remember,
> there are MILLIONS of webmasters out there.  We can't personally chat
> with all of you, as much as we would like to.  But I encourage you to
> speak out about ways we can better communicate with you; this
> Crawling, Indexing, and Ranking subgroup isn't really the right
> place... a better area would be our Random Chit-Chat section which is
> also frequented by us Googlers.

> Anyway, BlueWillow, I think all of us need to get out a good rant now
> and then, so I'm glad you "feel better for having said it."  Now I
> look forward to seeing some more constructive suggestions from you and
> others... and I promise to make sure the feedback is seen by many on
> our team here.


 
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