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Thanks Google and the Horrific Panda Update - for helping scumbag scraper / spam sites do well while penalizing my site that produces 100% original content: http://www.seobook.com/no-adwo...

May 11, 2011 - Comment - Like - Share

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My site has ended up losing 60% of its traffic literally from one day to the next due to this shit. - Patrick Jordan

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Nobody else here affected by this? This is literally killing thousands of sites, here's just one of a shedload of forum threads and articles on this: http://www.google.com/support... - Patrick Jordan

Here's just one of shedloads of examples of how this screws you in search results. I write a pure little opinion piece and if I do a search for it 6 freakin scraper sites are above mine for content I wrote. One of them - ipads101.com - rips most or all articles from my site every single day. Have reported them to Google Webmaster Tools 3 times over 2.5 months - nothing, zero response:... more... - Patrick Jordan

Wow, you must be PISSED. One other person I know who may be? able to help try Tom Stocky http://friendfeed.com/tom - sofarsoShawn ~presque...

I'm pissed, frustrated, demoralized, and I don't know what. It's painful to know that you work your ass off on something and it gets crushed by things entirely out of your control. And it is damn near impossible to get any support or help at all from Google. For many of their services there is zero phone support, zero chat support, zero email support, and help forums where there is very little Google response at all. - Patrick Jordan

Oh, and sorry Shawn - why would Tom possibly be able to help? I haven't come across him on here before. - Patrick Jordan

Tom works for Google, though products, he'll know (likely?) or doesn't hurt to ask - sofarsoShawn ~presque...

Cool, thanks Sean. - Patrick Jordan

NP, I just hope he can help :) - sofarsoShawn ~presque...

Hi Patrick, we dug into this a few days ago over at Google and I believe neither justanotheripadblog.com nor ipadinsight.com was affected by Panda. When you're talking about a drop in traffic, what's the time period you're referring to? If it's something that happened in late April or early May (1-2 weeks after you redirected everything on justanotheripadblog.com to ipadinsight.com), I'd focus on the transition to that new domain as the main factor. - Matt Cutts

Hi Matt. Thank you so much for looking into this and commenting here. It was a few weeks after moving to the new domain that the dropoff occurred. What seems odd is traffic did not dip much at all right after the move. It stayed steady. It dropped off a cliff very soon after being told by the Adwords reviewers that they had given my site a black mark, based on their entirely inaccurate... more... - Patrick Jordan

Okay, this would be around May 9th? It looks like it was issue of migrating the site from justanotheripadblog.com to ipadinsight.com. It wasn't related to Panda and wasn't related to any campaigns you were running in AdWords. On your question about scrapers, we actually had a change approved today at our weekly launch meeting that should help with the general issue. - Matt Cutts

Yes that looks the right date. I moved the site on April 23 though, and did it pretty much by the Google Webmaster Tools book, with change of address submitted, 301 redirects put in place at old site name, and per other advice given by my hosting company, Rackspace. And I didn't see a big dropoff after that or even two and more weeks later. Is it normal for it to be a delayed reaction... more... - Patrick Jordan

Awesome PJ, happy to see that this is finalleee moving forward to getting resolved:) - sofarsoShawn ~presque...

Thanks Shawn! And so am I. - Patrick Jordan

so, k I'm not certain, with all the the phoney ipad blogs, duping your work, is your's the one following me on Twitter? - sofarsoShawn ~presque...

Yeah, that's me - just started following you when I saw your mentions of your new Twitter frenzy / madness / good times. :) - Patrick Jordan

@Matt - can you say more on what change is being made to help with scraper sites? I still have one horrendous site that rips every single post every single day. I have submitted 3 spam reports via Google Webmaster Tools on them over nearly 3 months now - zero response. I have used the new Alleged Copyright Infringement form, but it is horrible to use. You have to submit a single URL at... more... - Patrick Jordan

@PJ thanks good to know I get enough twitter spam already and just out of the respect, wouldn't follow some who rips off your shit. Just FYI'ing my twitter stream comes with a warning, 18+ rated: I am very very controversial :ob - sofarsoShawn ~presque... from iPhone

Thanks for the just out of respect approach! And yeah I've been checking a lot of your tweets. I'm way over 18 so I'll handle it. :) - Patrick Jordan

Okay, I think as of May 19-20th or so ipadinsight.com should be in better shape. We're actually working on multiple things regarding scrapers. What's the site that's scraping you? P.S. I sometimes don't make it to FriendFeed that often, so tweeting to me might be better. (Of course, sometimes Twitter will only show tweets going back 3-4 hours, so it can be a mixed bag too.) - Matt Cutts

It is in better shape now. The site that is the most flagrant scraper site for many months now is ipads101.com. They rip content from my site every single day, nearly every single post I write. It also seems obvious that they hav zero original content on the site as a whole. It is all ripped without permission from other legit sites. I have submitted three spam reports on them via... more... - Patrick Jordan

Matt Cutts

Huh. Turn on "Suggested Sites" and IE8 sends your queries, surfing data, IP address and clicks to MSFT. Read http://www.microsoft.com/windows... closely.

September 1, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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I couldn't figure out how they show the suggested sites when you visit https://ieonline.microsoft.com/ . They don't use cookies or user accounts. - Ionut

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There are certain scenarios that require user data to be sent in order to make the user experience better, as suggested by http://tinyurl.com/3yue6c. Which if you read closely, discloses that Google collects exactly the same information if the user installs Google Toolbar and opts in particular features. - Franci Penov

Hi, Franci Penov! Remind me what part of MSFT you work at? I guess I thought that Google's disclosure at http://bit.ly/2Jiwrg with the big red capital letters and disclosure in the first sentence was more clear than MSFT's disclosure, which was buried deep in the IE8 privacy page. - Matt Cutts

9 processes are loaded with the browser in Windows (No doubt toolbar type tracking processes). You can turn them off but it's not as easy or obvious as recent efforts by Google and Yahoo to opt out. - Charlie Anzman

hmm.. well you can find out this much information about visitors to your websites and blogs too. But if MSFT finds out this info, they're blasted? - Imran Hussain from feedalizr

Matt, I work on Windows Live Toolbar. :-) I have not seen the big red letter warning you point to, as I have not installed Google Toolbar (exactly because of the product I work on). But you could've just mention that you have a problem with the disclosure clarity. I'll make sure your feedback gets to the IE guys. - Franci Penov

http://tinyurl.com/6q9vou - Chrome Privacy Policy. Not as obvious as Google Toolbar big red letter warning; I personally had to dig a little bit around before I found it. I'd say about as clear and discoverable as IE8 Privacy policy you complained about. :-) - Franci Penov

Franci Penov, thanks for passing on my feedback to the IE guys. I don't think Google Chrome has anything to hide (e.g. it doesn't send your browsing info to Google as you surf the web). In fact, I just did a separate write-up on the communication between Chrome and Google. Read it at http://bit.ly/2jnBYZ - Matt Cutts

Imran, I think it's fair to point out that IE8 gives users virtually no disclosure that their wholesale surfing data (including queries done on other search engines) will be sent to Microsoft if they turn on this innocent-sounding feature. - Matt Cutts

@mattcutts the Google reputation manager? :) - Mark Edmondson

ahhh... ok - WebmasterLMB

Ryan Moulton

How an ecology app for sharing nature photos built a community—and became a business. - By Jill Priluck - Slate Magazine - http://www.slate.com/id...

October 9, 2010 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

Sigh . . . I wanted to build this. At least the search component of it is still unsolved. :) - Ryan Moulton

At least they built it on Google App Engine? - Matt Cutts

Thomas Power

According to @Klout, @thomaspower's Klout score is 45. How influential are you? http://klout.com/thomaspower

October 8, 2010 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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A mere 62. - Louis Gray

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then you are a rascal LG and I want to know how you do it. You are also killing me on PeerIndex. Please can you do a blog on how to get the most of Klout and PI? http://www.peerindex.net/louisgr... - Thomas Power

I only got a 4. I hate to think what my real life identity score would be. - Sue - Friendfeed is best

27... :-) - Solveigh Calderin

69. No comment. - Matt Cutts

17! Oh, hold on ... this isn't like golf? Low isn't better? Er ... - AJ Kohn

Matt Cutts

I haven't stopped by here for a little while. Who is Frank, and why is everyone on his team?

October 3, 2010 - Comment - Like - Share

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Aha. Then count me in the Team Frank camp. Cancer can suck it. - Matt Cutts

Team Matt - Louis Gray

Matt Cutts

Google Smart Suggest - http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009...

December 16, 2009 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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I didn't think anyone would notice this, but Google OS did. - Matt Cutts from Bookmarklet

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I just wish it was this good in Chrome's Omnibox.... - Nathan Snyder

Can anyone point me to publications/papers/research on Google Suggest? Naively, it seems to be like - "SELECT query,count FROM query_logs WHERE query LIKE 'user_query%' ORDER BY count DESC LIMIT 10". - Space Cowboy

@Cowboy: I don't know of any public papers, but I'm guessing there's a lot of offline processing to extract common queries and phrases. I seriously doubt it could be this fast coming out of a SQL database :) - Joel Webber

Thanks Webber. I found a great post here (which also links to a patent): http://www.seobythesea.com/... - Space Cowboy

Two articles that were probably written when Google Suggest launched - http://www.slate.com/id... and http://serversideguy.blogspot.com/2004... - Space Cowboy

Found a related paper - "Efficient Type-Ahead Search on Relational Data: a TASTIER Approach" - http://dbgroup.cs.tsinghua.edu.cn/ligl... - discusses query prediction in relational databases. - Space Cowboy

Finally, found this very relevant patent - http://www.google.com/patents... Keven Gibbs launched Google Suggest in his 20% time...I wouldn't have found this out if it weren't for Quora! - http://www.quora.com/How-doe... - Space Cowboy

Matt Cutts

A Holiday Reminder - http://nedroidcomics.livejournal.com/287834...

July 3, 2010 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

Fireworks: selecting Darwin Awards for years! - Matt Cutts

Ryan Block

Did someone make an iPhone app that scans your call log and does a reverse-lookup on unknown numbers yet? Because that would be awesome.

November 23, 2009 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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I think I've heard of an Android app that does something similar using white pages data. Dunno about iPhone though. - Matt Cutts from iPhone

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Indeed it would. - Roberto Bonini

I seriously doubt apple would let a third party app data mine the phone app. To many privacy issues - Charles Dick

Matt: Android has a few apps like that. I use "caller lookup" which tells me the caller name and city of incoming calls, and also whether it is a telemarketer. The one extra feature I would really like it to have is to automatically block the call or send it to voicemail if it is identified as a telemarketer. - Simon

Android, Windows Mobile, Blackberry and Symbian all allow API access to the call log. - Hayes Haugen

Truecaller does something similar to that. - Otto

Matt Cutts

Nice to see one of SEO's own (@shak) doing so much for charity: water. He just raised his goal again: http://twitter.com/shak...

June 4, 2010 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Wished for a youtube player that make it possible to make / shuffle / play random / edit playlists at home. At your 30days blogpost. That would be good sharity also =o) - Jonas Jonsson

I'll pass the request on. :) - Matt Cutts

Thanks Matt. - Jonas Jonsson

Matt Cutts

Amsterdam was awesome, but now it's time to fly home. Chrome browser preloaded with dozens of tabs. :)

May 29, 2010 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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They're running BINGO on your flight. Nice! ;) - Micah

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(pull-tabs? gah - never mind. :) - Micah

Matt how are you coping with Louis Gray right on your tail on Buzz? - Thomas Power

I'm on his tail, Thomas, and I'm gonna be buzzing when I get back. :) - Matt Cutts

Ionut

Google Text-to-Speech - http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009...

November 23, 2009 from Google Operating System - Comment - Like - Share

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The post gives a 404 now? - Matt Cutts

but the feature is still available on google translate - testbeta

@mattcutts ATT also has a text to speech program here at http://www2.research.att.com/~ttsweb... - testbeta

MG Siegler

Almost tempted not to update to the new Chrome Dev build because the last one has been running so damn smooth.

May 6, 2010 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Come on in, the water's fine.. - Matt Cutts

famous last words - Chris Heath

Matt Cutts

I have reached hamburger nerdvana – The Core Dump - http://thecoredump.org/2010...

May 3, 2010 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

Good tip about putting an indent in the middle to keep the juices. - Matt Cutts

The dent in the middle is a good one, but a better one is to mix in some finely chopped onions into your meat. Onion powder also works, in a pinch. Brings out the flavor of the beef. Also, if you are getting lots of flames, then try indirect heat. Keep the coals on one side of the grill and the burgers on the other. Let the drippings fall down where there's no coals to light it up. A metal pan to catch the drippings and prevent the flaming can work quite well. - Otto

Matt Cutts

Diet and exercise don't work? - http://piaw.blogspot.com/2010...

April 28, 2010 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

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I was on an elliptical machine and surfing when I saw this post. :) - Matt Cutts

Now that's irony! - Piaw Na

Louis Gray

@farcepest I have seen the "Free iPad" text ad that comes via the BuzzCounter.net site. Looking for an alternative widget. Thanks.

April 25, 2010 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Interesting. - Matt Cutts

Adding on, Matt, the BuzzCounter widget originally installed without the ad, and it was added weeks later. The scammy "Free iPad" ad was running 100% of the time recently. I can't recall any other ads. - Louis Gray

Their site offers an ad-free widget for $10, but that was not disclosed up front or in their example widget on the site. - Louis Gray

Robert Scoble

Louis Gray started the argument about the next web: http://www.google.com/buzz... Important to participate in. I think Google employees screwed up.

April 24, 2010 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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This would have made a great blog post, why use Buzz Louis? - Jimminy IS Everybody

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A few reasons... 1) Because it was more casual than a usual post. 2) Because it would hit the right people there. 3) Because the goal was not to get visibility for me or my site, but to get the message there. I am not trying to call anybody out or embarrass them, but give strong-worded guidance. - Louis Gray

Just like it is important, sometimes, to have native FriendFeed entries, it is similarly important to do more than import content to Buzz. This was a good opportunity to use the available platform. - Louis Gray

(Note: Bias isn't the phrase I want to use, but it's the closest to coming to mind at the moment.) I understand that, it just seems a bit biased, to be discussing Google vs Facebook, on a Google based site, it would also be just as biased if it was on Friendfeed. Your blog seems like a good place, lacking of much bias to either side of the discussion, even though it's on Blogger. Also,... more... - Jimminy IS Everybody

Jimminy, the goal of the post wasn't to make everyone happy. Think of it as a precursor to something later, if I choose to. I wanted to tell the Google guys ripping FB to think about how that was being perceived. Doing that on Buzz was the best way to get that done. - Louis Gray

I guess, and I agree with your points, there aren't many open pundits left untainted, and the Google fellows have been quite abrasive in how their handling competitors, particularly FB. So I guess if your goal was to get that point to the Google guys, it's a good place to go. - Jimminy IS Everybody

very interesting discussion thanx for sharing - WarLord

Google must acquire Twitter. Google will acquire Twitter. - Thomas Power

I think it was a good choice of forum by Louis. I like that there are places around the web (e.g. Twitter vs. blog post vs. buzz vs. posting a comment on a blog post vs. posting on a forum) to get the message to the right people without sending it out to everyone. - Matt Cutts

Peter Norvig

Google's Broken Hiring Process - Google - Gawker - http://gawker.com/5392947...

October 30, 2009 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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What do you know? Valleywag got everything wrong. Google is hiring, not laying off. Also, our interview scores actually correlate very well with on-the-job performance. Peter Seibel asked me if there was anything counterintuitive about the process and I said that people who got one low score but were hired anyway did well on-the-job. To me, that means the interview process is doing very well, not that it is broken. It means that we don't let one bad interview blackball a candidate. We'll keep interviewing, keep hiring, and keep analyzing the results to improve the process. And I guess Valleywag will keep doing what they do... - Peter Norvig from Bookmarklet

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Nice shirt! - Jim Norris

That is a nice shirt. - τorƍue

You had at least three rounds of layoffs this year, Peter. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009... - Ryan Tate

Further, while you hired a rare few people who got "1" scores on one their interviews, you rejected 99 percent of those people, and you have no idea how they would have performed. Those you did hire turned out to be top performers. Sounds broken to me. (I am the author of the Valleywag post in question.) - Ryan Tate

Hi Ryan, thanks for commenting. First: we get over 1000 resumes a day. We can't hire all of them. I am painfully aware that a few of the people we don't hire would be as good or better than a few of the people we do. I feel bad for the people we have to reject who are equally qualified, but that is the nature of uncertain decision-making. Now what I said in the Seibel interview: we try... more... - Peter Norvig

It's a great shirt. Google is tops. No system is perfect -- so long as there's a weighting for intangibles and accounting for style differences between interviewer and interviewee, all should be fine. - Christopher Galtenberg

Bump. Maybe Ryan didn't get a chance to see that you'd responded, Peter. - Matt Cutts

Could you recommend any literature on data driven hiring practices? Google seems to use many analogical reasoning questions for screening applicants. It would be interesting if there was a relationship between analogical reasoning and productivity. - Brandon Smietana

Peter, did you ever read Malcolm Gladwell's book Blink? Seems to me the other piece of the hiring process to analyze is the cost-benefit analysis - is it worth doing so many interviews and so much testing if people's first hunch is often the best indicator? (Which isn't exactly what Gladwell said, but partially). - Laura Norvig

I'm very suspicious of relying on the first hunch. If you hired everyone based on your first hunches, you would discover that most of the time you are wrong. I've lost count of the number of times I've interviewed someone (either on-site or as a second phone interview), and learned that the previous interviewer did not ask them to write code, despite the position being one that required... more... - Piaw Na

Yeah! Always go with the _second_ hunch. - Andrew C (✓)

While I respect G for maintaining it's high standards for selection of new employees, one must caution against becoming myopic from seeking an image cast from itself. I've always thought that brainteasers were gimmicks and not real tests of one's ability, and using them in real-world hiring is just plain juvenile! While I don't know the details of their hiring process, I'd be curious to... more... - Sir Roxalot

People talk a lot about the brainteasers, but I know I've never used one in the hundreds of interviews I've done, and when we consider hiring someone, I'm not influenced if they miss a brainteaser question that someone else asked. I am influenced if they refuse to engage, or discuss the question. -Peter Norvig - Peter Norvig from email

I've never used a brainteaser in my interviews either. I don't like them, and discount interviewers who use them heavily. - Piaw Na

It's important to beware of survivor bias when reviewing the outcomes of your processes. Sure most of the 1's did well, but how about the 4's? It's easy to overtrain a system, and in any group of workers I've been in, I've shielded the slightly less competent Peacemakers from ridicule by the other Smart Guys because we need them just as much as they need us. - Jason Marshall

Louis Gray

New Blog Post: Google's Blogger Product Manager, Rick Klau, Transitioning to Google Profiles /cc @rklau http://blog.louisgray.com/2010...

April 12, 2010 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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I bet it is more likely that this is the reason for the transition - Schmidt to Bloggers - Drop Dead! as covered by RWW : http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive... - Dave McCrory

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No, Dave. This is not true. Rick works for Brad Horowitz, who owns multiple products, including Buzz, Blogger and Profiles. It was a situation of need and opportunity. Google is not turning their back on Blogger or blogs in general. I wouldn't get caught up in sensationalist headlines from blogs in the pageview game. - Louis Gray

+1 to Louis' comment. - Matt Cutts

Hmmm this will be interesting. I have 2 main Google profiles and the 'wrong' one is associated with my blog after I linked them unknowingly a while back. There's no way to undo it and it makes gmail, blogger, adsense and youtube very annoying for me. So I'm not looking forward to any more linking up of things. - WoH: Professor MOTHRA

WoH, this is a perfect opportunity to now have a name associated with the service and issue. I see it as a good thing. - Louis Gray

I think it's good in principle , just not for me. - WoH: Professor MOTHRA

Louis Gray

Google Profiles Say Happy Birthday With Confetti and Cake - http://www.youtube.com/watch...

April 8, 2010 from YouTube - Comment - Like - Share

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Righteous :) - Matt Cutts

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Happy Birthday - DGentry

happy bday, Louis! - imabonehead

Happy Birthday, Louis! - AJ Batac

Happy Birthday!! - victed

Many happy returns!!! - Dawn

Happy Birthday!! - Mike Fruchter

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LOUIS!! Since you now have Scoble's BMW, what goofy picture should I post for your birthday? hehe :D - Susan Beebe

great, so this makes everyone's profile nearly unreadable one day out of the year. - Vezquex

Happy Birthday, Louis! - Mark Trapp

Michael Masnick

RT @binarybits: This is a remarkably restrained and gentle critique of Scott Cleland's ridiculous anti-Google hackery. http://techliberation.com/2010...

March 30, 2010 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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At some point, it seems like going after anyone as much as Scott does just backfires. - Matt Cutts

Scott Beale

Video #2 of Merton’s Piano Improvisation With Random Strangers on Chatroulette - http://laughingsquid.com/video-2...

March 27, 2010 from Laughing Squid - Comment - Like - Share

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So good. - Matt Cutts

Matt Cutts

Native Client and Web Portability - http://blog.chromium.org/2010...

March 27, 2010 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

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I know you're aching to read about Native Client on a Saturday morning. :) Two important points: 1. NC executables can run at 97% of the speed of regular executables and 2) They can be written as a portable representation that could run on other types of processors. The Native Client team recently had an article (in Communications of the ACM?) that was pretty interesting. Sounds like lots of large programs can be recompiled with little/no code changes. - Matt Cutts

Yes, it was in Communications of the ACM (unless they wrote another one). - Ruchira S. Datta

Here's the link http://cacm.acm.org/magazin... - Ruchira S. Datta

Matt Cutts

Detecting suspicious account activity - http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010...

March 25, 2010 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

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I just love this idea so much. Gives people better tools to detect/stop abuse of their account. - Matt Cutts

Matt Cutts

Numbers - http://xkcd.com/715/

March 19, 2010 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

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As far Google can tell from the web, the average IQ is 147. :) - Matt Cutts

Gina

QR codes: stupid? Cool? Useful? Not so much? Talk to me.

March 16, 2010 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Useful. Kinda cool. - Matt Cutts

Jeremy Zawodny

Linux will never be ready for the laptop.

March 12, 2010 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Puhlease! I use Ubuntu on my laptop for 3 years... and I am VERY satisfied. What are you complaints? You seem like a reasonable man. ;) - Space Cowboy

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I've been Linux on the laptop for ~6 months now and I don't expect to go back. - Matt Cutts

I've been living on Linux laptops for over ten years (and desktops for many more years). It's gotten MUCH better, but it's never once been easy to get everything running smoothly. There's always something that doesn't work quite right (usually audio or wifi), and getting it working takes hours of research and kernel patches, and sometimes months or years of waiting for updated drivers.... more... - Seth

I totally agree with Seth (6 years of Linux on a laptop there). - CantorJF from iPhone

the laptop will never be ready for real computing... - LarchOye

why? ubuntu is working for me in the past two years - just great! - Ido

Jeremy, dear! Are you in a bad moooood? LOL - Lora Lufark

hmm! i am planning for ubuntu on on laptop. I used Ubuntu on desktop. it is true that lots of common things need to fix before working on Ubuntu. - Satya Prakash

my wife (complete non-tech) uses it for several years with Ubuntu - it used to be problem with wifi in 2006, but not anymore... what made you writing this line? - A. T.

I have Ubuntu on laptop for several months, seems to work so far... - Ashalynd

I agree with Seth, but the problem is easily circumvented by doing research before you buy. Too many users are in the habit of buying the hardware based on the buzzwords and the marketing, before attempting to figure out how to make it work. Don't do that. Let other people do the cutting edge stuff.. Instead, you need to buy hardware that is known to work well with what you're running. Compatibility lists are good things. - Otto

I usually find that it's windows that is harder to get working. With the exception of a) powerpoint and occasionally b) wireless, but (b) is getting better and I loathe the fact that I need (a). Rather, windows often seems easy to set up initially, but is impossible to maintain. - Greg Grothaus

Samuel, my experience has been that no amount of research solves the problem. I only buy laptops whose hardware is theoretically supported, but I find that other people's solutions don't always work for me, and I'm a relatively sophisticated user, happy to build my own kernels. We can speculate about the reasons (and I did, above), but the end result is that there's no way to reliably predict whether things will work. Despite all that, it's still the best option for me, but it's not for everyone. - Seth

Meh. Lately I've had few problems with more modern builds of Ubuntu and such. Fedora has actually gotten really good on laptops too. But it's not like it was, say, 5 years ago, where you'd often be lucky if the screen was supported properly. - Otto

Andy Baio

Piano Improvisation on Chat Roulette - http://www.youtube.com/watch...

March 15, 2010 from Waxy.org Links - Comment - Like - Share

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amazing how much creativity the site's inspiring [via] - Andy Baio

That rocks so hard. - Matt Cutts

I had skipped this, thinking, just another chatroulette video, but then Matt Cutts said, “That rocks so hard,” and I had to watch. I'm glad I did! :) - Amit Patel

Matt Cutts

I'm Blogging Elsewhere - http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog...

March 14, 2010 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

Jeremy Zawodny is moving to a new WordPress blog at http://blog.zawodny.com/ - Matt Cutts

Tim O'Reilly

"People who live in walkable neighborhoods weigh 7% less on average." says @mikemathieu of Walkscore (at HHS meeting)

March 11, 2010 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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That's a cool stat. - Matt Cutts

Per a follow-up tweet, it is actually 7 pounds less. - Michael R. Bernstein

Matt Mullenweg

Back to Firefox - http://ma.tt/2010...

March 8, 2010 from Matt Mullenweg - Comment - Like - Share

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I had the exact same problems - Jesse Stay

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What OS are you using? Are you using the standard version or the beta release? I haven't had this problem on XP Professional with the standard version and a few extensions running. - Skyler Call

+1. Chrome isn't reliable enough for day to day usage yet. And the extensions for it, by and large, are just not as good as my Firefox ones. - Otto

I've been using Chrome for day-to-day usage for almost two years now. I would be curious to know more about what caused Matt's crash loop though. - Matt Cutts

Matt Cutts, I have the same problems. I use both the stable and nightly builds and it happens on all of them. I'm on OS X Snow Leopard. I had to switch back to Safari, and haven't had the problems there. - Jesse Stay

If Chrome didn't crash on a regular basis and for seemingly no reason, then I'd use it more often. Firefox is rock solid and never crashes, though it often consumes too much memory. Still, for an 8 hour day it works well enough, and the Web Developer extension is something I realistically cannot do without. For now, the only real use I have for Chrome is to test new designs, to see if it renders them properly. - Otto

My days are normally 12-16 hour days (or more). Maybe that's my problem :-) - Jesse Stay

The sites I keep open 100% are Gmail, Facebook, FriendFeed, Google Reader, and Google Calendar - could it have something to do with one of them eating up memory? - Jesse Stay

Chrome on Win7 is solid - Jeff (Team マクダジ )

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