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Thursday, July 31, 2008
It was an ordinary Wednesday morning when I decided to film my day at the Googleplex...
A recap of the day's events
10AM: Meeting with the webmaster support team
Our teamshares a doccontaining our current agenda and the previous meetings' agenda, minutes, and action items. In
this meeting, we discussed:
Feedback from blog post onDuplicate content due to scrapers.
Some webmasters suggested that we could improve our detection. In order to improve quality,
it would help to get feedback with specific examples. Susan Moskwa, one of our Webmaster
Trends Analysts based in Kirkland, Washington, volunteered to post a blog comment to solicit
more information.
Two recent spam techniques mentioned in the blogosphere. Brian White, who leads one of the
Webspam-fighting groups at Google, explained that one technique is new twist on old idea,
both are already handled.
11AM:Meeting with Matt Cutts
Matt provided feedback on:
Proposal to write follow-up blog comment on duplicate content caused by scrapers to solicit
specific examples.Approved.
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