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Where is the thread in which GoogleGuy will answer 10 questions?

Dear Brett, Where is Promised Thread?

         

Noximus

7:37 pm on Jun 1, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Dear Brett,
As I remember you promised us the thread in which GoogleGuy would answer Top 10 questions. It is the end of the week, Where is the thread? or Did I miss anything?

Best regards,
Noximus

teeceo

7:57 pm on Jun 1, 2003 (gmt 0)

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msg #:189 5:32 pm on May 30, 2003 (utc 0)
Thanks folks - collating questions for submission and we'll go from there in about a week.

teeceo.

g1smd

8:08 pm on Jun 1, 2003 (gmt 0)

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The time for asking the questions would run to the end of the week.

It didn't say that there would be answers at the end of the week.
You're expecting something that wasn't said.

It will probably take a day or two for Brett, and whoever else decides, to pick out the 10 questions then carefully choose the wording and then submit them.

GoogleGuy will probably need a few days to find answers, talk with colleagues about what can be answered, and so on, as well.

I'm checking back next weekend to see if anything has come back in the mail. Any sooner is probably asking far too much.

<edit>teeceo posted while I was writing this</edit>

Shak

8:15 pm on Jun 1, 2003 (gmt 0)

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It will probably take a day or two for Brett, and whoever else decides, to pick out the 10 questions then carefully choose the wording and then submit them.

:) a couple of days, UNDERstatement of the year.

90% of the questions have answers right here at Webmasterworld.

5% of the questions HE can NOT give answers to (if he does he might aswell give us the key to googleplex)

that leaves 5%...

and I am looking forward to those.

Shak

DerekH

10:17 pm on Jun 1, 2003 (gmt 0)

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He, calm down...
GoogleGuy gives his answers free of charge - he's not at our beck and call 24/7.

Let this whole process take its time - you all read what was posted, and if you didn't choose to let it seep in, that's not GoogleGuy's fault.

We all have a 40-year working career, but some people who post here seem to think that one week is the end of their working life!

Me? It's the weekend. Time to enjoy other things....

Clark

10:34 pm on Jun 1, 2003 (gmt 0)

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This Internet thing got people used to getting what they want, very quickly, for free. Patience is no longer a virtue apparently.

GodLikeLotus

10:46 pm on Jun 1, 2003 (gmt 0)

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>Me? It's the weekend. Time to enjoy other things....

"Like Webmasterworld DerekH"

DerekH

11:01 pm on Jun 1, 2003 (gmt 0)

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(Earlier, I wrote)
>Me? It's the weekend. Time to enjoy other things....

GodLikeLotus wrote:
"Like Webmasterworld DerekH"

Yes I do like it. Very much.

But...
Point is, people seem to think that playing e-chess with GoogleGuy (nice chap - he's got an English sense of humour - I approve!) is what being a good Webmaster is all about.

I go with the guys who say that Joe Public is what matters. Tonight I visited 3 web-sites to book a summer holiday cottage. I used google to pick them. Two were brilliant - type in the area, type in the dates, see what's free. One was NOT... type in the area, see 92 places to stay. For each, see if it was free on my week : if not, backtrack, pick another....
I got bored after three...

Google is a magical focus, but it's NOT the answer. I'm happy to surf several sites to find a holiday, but the sites that I'm now focussed on are those that are easy to use, not those that match keywords...

Then again, us Brits are renowned for being awkward...
Derekh

GodLikeLotus

11:24 pm on Jun 1, 2003 (gmt 0)

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DerekH - Sorry for my previous thread, I totally agree about what you are saying. I stopped smoking 2 weeks ago and find wbmasterworld a good way to let off steam. No seriously, I personally think Google has problems at present but only a fraction of their users even know about this. I am sure Google and their Googleguy will do their best in answering the 10 questions Brett & Co select. I would simply say that we all NEED to just sit back and wait for Google to sort out their own problems (which they will) in their own time, this guessing game about what will happen next has become a bit much of late. Maybe a great time to look at other search engines and directories.

kaled

11:35 pm on Jun 1, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Brett,

If you decide to use one of my questions (I think there were two) it might be an idea to remove my name from it. I Don't think GG likes me any more!

Kaled.

DerekH

11:40 pm on Jun 1, 2003 (gmt 0)

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GodLike Lotus wrote :
>>DerekH - Sorry for my previous thread, I totally agree about what you are saying. I stopped smoking 2 weeks ago and find wbmasterworld a good way to let off steam.<<
<snip>and then....
>>Maybe a great time to look at other search engines and directories. <<

Sorry? No need! No apologies needed - my best friend is quitting smoking too and I know how things suddenly seem to take a new perspective!

I take your point about other search engines, yet deep down I have this nagging feeling. You see, my website - raising money for local charities - isn't anything to do with google, or being clever with keywords, or neat optimisations, it's to do with people dying too soon and the families they leave behind.

In that respect, GoogleGuy's comments - about good content - rank way above tricks that are, in terms of getting one's 15 minutes of fame, little more than magic tricks...

For everyone who climbs up google's ladder by on, another gets pushed down...

Darn - I let my emotion out of the bag!
DerekH

steve128

11:43 pm on Jun 1, 2003 (gmt 0)



The only questions I would like an answer to will not be answered.

All answered questions will have already been covered, but buy using different words; so as to avoid duplicate content penalties ;-

steve128

11:47 pm on Jun 1, 2003 (gmt 0)



My ma has recently become internet savvy @70 yrs of age, she says google is cool...real easy to understand...yeah ma it used to be ...lol