Inside Googles New York Office
Pictures of menus, food, cubes, blackboards, etc. No pictures of algorithms. Or the infamous SEO dartboard. “Google is leasing around 300,000 square feet of office space on three floors in a building that takes up a full city block along Ninth Avenue between 14th and 15th Streets… The New York Post reported Monday that the company will pay at least …
Page Rank Updates, Matt Explains A Few Things
No one supposedly cares about Page Rank anymore, but I bet everyone checked theirs Up = good. Bad = who cares about Page Rank (until next time)? Matt Cutts answers a few questions. Not much is new in there, apart from this clarification about continuous Page Rank calculations (on the back-end), which I don’t recall seeing published before: “I believe …
Google Buys Garage
Google have bought the house, and garage, where the company started. “The Mountain View-based company bought the 1,900-square-foot home in nearby Menlo Park from one of its own employees, Susan Wojcicki, who had agreed to lease her garage for $1,700 per month because she wanted some help paying the mortgage.“ It’s a reminder that Google started only eight years ago. …
Short Interview With Matt Cutts
Searchblog asks Matt a few questions. Quite short, and there’s not much new here. One interesting bit, under the standard Matt disclaimer of “this is just my personal opinion”: “Netflix doesn’t have to worry much (who wants to spam a DVD rating?), while eBay probably spends a lot more time thinking about how to make their trust ratings accurate and …
Google’s Approach To Other Peoples Content
Anyone would think there’s a turf war going on in Belgium, that could spread even wider. Or something Google outline their approach to content: “Protecting content owners’ rights, respecting their wishes, helping to reward them for their creative endeavors – these are the primary principles that guide Google’s approach. We believe it’s the best way to make the world’s information …
Analysts Don’t Like Alogithms
UBS Analysts are scratching their heads as they try to advise investors about Google’s future: “The world’s largest wealth management firm, UBS, issued a note this week advising investors that the unpredictable results of Google’s adjustments to ad systems and algorithms, combined with an expected 3Q seasonal downturn in online advertising, makes investing in GOOG a risky proposition in the …
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