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How many people know the algo's and has anyone ever escaped from the company and leaked any info?
Is google a dangerous company to mess with?
Could you go missing in the middle of the night if you try and find out too much about them?
Has anyone ever felt the might of Google?
I am curious to gauge peoples feelings?
He has even been seen at SEO events.
Whether he was trying to escape was not stated...
I could have sworn that was the reason he keeps going blip, blip, blip.
[edited by: theBear at 10:57 pm (utc) on Jan. 23, 2007]
Reminds me of people who think the shows "Entourage" or "24" are reality TV.
MC is a fictional personality...
And of course, you've "seen" him at the SEO conferences.
Doesn't Spock show up at the Sci-fi conferences as well?
Inside the necklace is a supercomputer than can read minds and perform voice recognition.
If the computer determines the Googler is divulging secrets then the computer blows up, taking the googler with it.
Did you notice Matt always buttons his top button?
How many people know the algo's
No-one.
I didn't want to go there ;-).
No-one.
Due to compexity of algo, or deliberately for security?
Google's algorithm is not one formula. It is a collection of formulas/modules. Why do I think I know this? Because Matt Cutts has written about consulting people/teams that are responsible for certain parts of the algorithm to find out how Google handles certain types of data.
Therefore, as Google is a black box to us, to insiders Google is a series of black boxes. I am sure that there are some people who have knowledge of how each black box operates but I doubt there is anyone intimately familiar with the actual code in all of them.
Therefore anyone who came out of Google desiring to reproduce the algorithm would have to think out, program and test the whole caboodle. That would take a lot of time and resources.
So what would you do if you did know the algorithm? Build relevant content, build relevant content relationships within your website, optimize your markup as you would for a blind person, and get relevant links. In other words, knowing would change nothing.
Therefore, as Google is a black box to us, to insiders Google is a series of black boxes. I am sure that there are some people who have knowledge of how each black box operates but I doubt there is anyone intimately familiar with the actual code in all of them.
LOL sounds like a sleeper cell!
Maybe we're all former Googlers, but our memory has been erased... forever ;)
In other words, knowing would change nothing.
Exactly.
Not to mention, the weighting of the various factors change regularly.
The reason Matt's blog ranks so high for many things isn't because he knew some secret, it is because he is a source for good information, and he gets links to that information.
