flood6 - 10:14 pm on Mar 8, 2005 (gmt 0)

It's funny reading the comments on the /. article. Our non-webmaster geek-brethren are absolutely clueless about what the story was about.

One person pointed out that they don't look at the cached version when they click on the search results so it wasn't effecting them at all...sigh.

Others couldn't understand what the big deal was, they don't understand that many of us eat and starve by our (or our clients') rankings; Google holding webmasters to one standard while not living up to it themselves is fishy. Or as was pointed out, ensuring that subordinates know what lines not to cross to avoid this kind of embarrassment.

Of course, when the math and physics guys start swarming all over one of their stories I have a tendency to wonder what the big deal is, too.

Incidentally, that was the first story I submitted to slashdot that they accepted. But they rejected the one I submitted a few weeks ago about Jenna Jameson's moaning ringtones...