Wednesday, July 30, 2008 at 5:08 PM
It was an ordinary Wednesday morning when I decided to film my day at the Googleplex...A recap of the day's events
10AM Meeting with the webmaster support team
Our team shares a doc containing our current agenda and the previous meetings' agenda, minutes, and action items. In this meeting, we discussed:
- Feedback from blog post on Duplicate content due to scrapers. Some webmasters suggested that we could improve our detection. In order to improve quality, it would help to get feedback with specific examples. Susan Moskwa, one of our Webmaster Trends Analysts based in Kirkland, Washington, volunteered to post a blog comment to solicit more information.
- Recent and upcoming releases
- Webmaster Tools API on schedule
- "Skip intro" in search results
- JuneTune online chat agenda
- Two recent spam techniques mentioned in the blogosphere. Brian White, who leads one of the Webspam-fighting groups at Google, explained that one technique is new twist on old idea, both are already handled.
11AM Meeting with Matt Cutts
Matt provided feedback on:
- Proposal to write follow-up blog comment on duplicate content caused by scrapers to solicit specific examples. Approved.
- "URLs and case sensitivity basics" presentation for online chat
1PM Lunch with Shyam, a Crawl engineer, and Jason, and AdSense engineer
2PM Meeting with Wysz to review slides for Google Trifecta
5PM Little "drive-by" to catch Reid, Evan, Charlene, Jessica, and Wysz while they're monitoring the discussion group
7PM Dinner with Matthias
p.s. A huge thanks to Wysz for his film editing skillz.
22 comments:
It is very nice to see this insider video with all the team.
This makes me use more of webmaster groups from now. You guys do a very good job.
A really nice video, BTW you stop working very late.. you must really enjoy what you do to spend almost all of your day in the office :)
great day, I wish I could have that kind of working day.
Thanks for the post, this was very interesting!
I'm even more interested in the live chat you mentioned. Unfortunately I can't seem to find anything on upcoming chats - the link provided was for June, right? When is the next one, and were can I find info on it?
Thank you!
Hi Maile
Thank you, I enjoyed that.
It’s great to see that you guys are all “normal” people doing a great job. Also pretty cool to see how the Google offices look like. Btw. You seem to be privileged with your 2 monitors. Cheers.
It's always fun to see people behind the "faceless" brand name :)
Great video, and cool to see everyone in action. Appreciate Matt's reference to Search Engine Journal as well as my article there.
HELP!
I am not computer savvy and my website drberkowitz.com has been hacked and google has posted a warning for all patients to not access it. What shoud I do? ANt ideas? I went on my site and My computer was unaffected.
Thanks!
sharon
Has the video been removed? It does not seem to work.
SharonB - view the source of your website, and you can probably remove the malicious content. Then change all passwords and security including ftp and database passwords. Then check the website is ok, and through webmasters tools you can submit a reconsideration request to Google. The site will be checked, and if all malicious content has been removed and it has been deemed you have taken measures to prevent it occuring again, the caution will be removed. The entire process will probably take a few days.
Webmaster tools will also tell you what pages have been effected.
Would have given anything to be a fly on the wall to eavesdrop on what they were saying about Search Engines Web a couple of years ago when posting on Matts blog.
After seeing that video and observing their personalities - everything becomes a little clearer about the atmosphere on making controversial and outspoken disagreements.
While everyone seems good natured, you have to wonder how much critical thinking, innovation and potential creativity are lost because of job insecurity.
Remember that fear expressed by that video taker about being FIRED everyday she reported to work.
My Blog is locked for spam blogging -- LET US GO! Blogger we didn't do anything... HOW COULD YOU SHUT US DOWN WITHOUT WARNING for spam blogging...IT IS TWO DAYS AND WE HAVE NEVER MISSED A BLOG BEFORE. We didn't spam blog. You are shutting us down for no cause.
THERE IS NO WHERE TO GO TO GET ANY PEOPLE I HAVE BEEN IN CIRCLES ON YOUR HELP LINE and your group list.
YOU GAVE US LETTERS TO TYPE WHICH I COULDN'T EVEN DISCIPHER...How could you do this without warning us first so we could tell our readers we would be gone for awhile.
LET OUR BLOG GO...WE NEED TO POST WE HAVE A LOCAL ELECTION COMING.
http://eyeonmiami.blogspot.com/
I cant get my myspace page indexed http://profile.myspace.com/blackhousemultimediamusic.... What am I doing wrong,or not doing
I'm kind of bummed - expecting to see a 100 foot video Tetris wall in the cafeteria or something involving laser tag:-) Kudo's to the team for such a fascinating machine known as google.
:) ги.
This was great! I'm thinking of doing a day in the life for me at my office this week!
I loved this video a lot, its so nice to see how the Google Teams daily work day is (calm and chilled.)
:)
This post is really cool. visit my blog
hi...can you help me to clear all my blog postings in the cache link. i have deleted my blog but the cache still in the search engine. thanks!
my blog is : ljamie.blogspot.com
Lol, Matt tried to spam his pedometer :D.
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