Progress against SOPA
When I did my blog post about the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) last week , things looked quite grim. The fight isn’t over, but there’s been a lot of great developments in the last few days.
Google life
I need your help–please. Call your congressperson?
(This is post is my personal opinion.) Normally I don’t like to ask people for help, but I could really use your assistance.
Grow a moustache and fight cancer!
For my next 30 day challenge, I’ll be growing a mustache to raise awareness and money for men’s health issues, and specifically prostate cancer research. Men of search and SEO, please join our team .
Halloween costume: stickman from xkcd
For Halloween this year I asked people on Google+ what I should be for Halloween, and someone suggested going as the blackhat stick man from xkcd . You know, this guy: That sounded like a good challenge. I finished the costume and taped a video, but unfortunately I didn’t have enough time to get the video to the quality level that I wanted
What cool new websearch ideas should Google launch in 2012?
Even though this year is nowhere near finished, a lot of people at Google are already thinking about things to launch next year. So I wanted to put the question out: what cool things would you like to see Google launch in 2012? For example, in 2011, we launched hundreds of search quality changes that might not be noticeable, along with a few high-impact changes.
Busy few weeks
I’ve been out of town (hiking in Yosemite and traveling to the East Coast) for two out of the last three weeks, so things are a bit crazy. Besides the usual email overload, there’s a project at work–not related to webspam–that will need some attention for the next 4-5 weeks. I’m triaging email as best I can, but don’t be surprised if you don’t get a response from me
Traveling for a week
For the next week or so, I’m going to be hiking in the back country of Yosemite. That’s assuming that my legs hold up: after finishing the San Francisco Marathon at the end of July, my knees and ankles have been a little creaky recently
Submit video topics for mid-2011
Sometime soon I’m planning to record some new webmaster videos. I created a Google Moderator page where you can post video suggestions and vote topics up and down. Instead of short 1-2 minute video answers to quick questions, I’d like to try something new this time
A rel=canonical corner case
I answered an interesting rel=canonical question over email today and thought I’d blog about it. If you’re not familiar with rel=canonical read these pages first.
Search Engineering at Google
I’m always a fan of Googlers doing more communication and more videos, so when some fellow search quality folks made a video about working at Google, I said I’d be happy to post it: You can find out more info and apply to be a search engineer at Google if you’re interested.