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From: Admin Aaron
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 04:13:12 -0000
Local: Wed, Sep 26 2007 12:13 am
Subject: Re: Popular Picks -- What would *you* like to know more about?
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I do not believe you are Matt Cutts because you do not have a cool G
icon next to your name! =P

New ideas:

How about allowing webmasters to use blockquotes to have Google ignore
chunks of duplicate text on our sites? This would be helpful for
information (like shipping instructions) that we would like to NOT
appear on each page. If not, please confirm that algorithms are
already doing this (ignoring duplicate blocks of text for the most
relevant).

How about getting ahead of the privacy crowd and allowing people who
are verified by Google (as being themselves) to "blank out" personal
information that might appear on other folks websites like, home
addresses? What happens when crazy people get in the news for stalking
via Google? It is a little scary, do a search for yourself! So if you
use Google search and look for something personal someone has
confirmed that they do not want others to see it gets pinked out, even
scarier idea? ;)

BUT I would be happy to have a further explanation of good uses of the
nofollow tag, I just put it all over my product site to disallow the
links to useless stuff like the contact page and duplicate forms, am I
doing wrong?

Thanks!

On Sep 25, 11:07 pm, MattCutts wrote:

> Red Cardinal, I think we're open to things that encourage people to
> participate in this group. :)

> Best wishes,
> Matt Cutts

> On Sep 24, 2:39 am, Red Cardinal wrote:

> > Call me a sceptic (and many do), but I want to know what Google is
> > going to do in 3 weeks time?
> > What are you going to do to ensue more top posters don't abandon the
> > group?
> > Why cant your initiatives in this group be proactive rather than
> > reactive?

> > On Sep 24, 7:12 am, Adam Lasnik wrote:

> > > Thought I'd try something new here, and the team's backing me up on it
> > > (brave souls!)

> > > Got questions?  We've got answers:  at least five (5) substantive
> > > responses to your picks on webmaster'y topics over the next two weeks.

> > > We invite you to ask questions in this thread that:
> > > - don't deal with a specific site or sites
> > > - are likely to be of interest to a great many webmasters around the
> > > world
> > > - aren't already covered in one of our recent blog posts or in our
> > > Help Center

> > > And in turn we will do one of the following for each response:
> > > - Start a thread in this group with a detailed answer.
> > > - Add new Help Center documentation or substantially revise an
> > > existing doc to cover your question.
> > > - Do a blog post on the topic.

> > > Some ground rules:
> > > - Please don't get into in-depth discussion on each question in this
> > > thread; instead, kindly start a separate thread (and feel free to
> > > point there from this thread!)
> > > - Understand that -- unless we inexplicably get fewer than five
> > > questions here -- we're not going to be able to answer everything/
> > > everyone in this thread.
> > > - Webmaster'y questions or specific suggestions on topics to explore
> > > are welcomed... but not wish lists, okay? (e.g., "I wish Webmaster
> > > Tools stats were updated hourly!" and "Can we see more photos of
> > > Matt's Cats please?" do not count!)

> > > We'll continue to answer site-specific questions in other threads, but
> > > we thought it'd be interesting to tackle some broader/more-general
> > > themes separately.  And we'll see how this works out.  If it bombs,
> > > well, we tried.  If it rocks, then we'll consider doing it again!

> > > Have a great week everyone, and we'll look forward to seeing your
> > > questions here.


 
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