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Bravo!

Matt_Cutts 16y ago
I'll be curious to collect programming-related queries where we're not returning Stack Overflow or some other site that we should. Computer science and programming queries are easy for engineers to assess and say "Ah, here's something we need to do better on."
- dminor 16y ago
  What's the best way to get these to you (after this article has dropped off the front page)?
  - Matt_Cutts 16y ago
    I'll still circle back to this page for quite a while, or you can tweet them to me. If it's long feedback, you can blog it and tweet a link to the blog post.
    - Natsu 16y ago
      As the guy in charge of fighting webspam, maybe this will help you find or improve upon some algorithmic means of detecting when lots of unrelated wikis start to get exploited to feed up advertisements. http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=73045.0 http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=73045.0 Apparently, for a short time (until the admins fixed it), a wiki for a game I play was hijacked to spam Google. Actually, said wiki (magmawiki.com) is under attack right now from spam user accounts. I don't run the place, but I thought I'd pass the information along because it might give you something to examine and because I have to imagine that anything that helps Google identify spam-hijacked wikis would be helpful to everyone.
    - cryptoz 16y ago
      This comment made me chuckle. I agree all this should be discussed out in the open, but blogging and then tweeting links to the blog post....what happened to email!? :)
      - Matt_Cutts 16y ago
        I get way too much email already, but the main reason is that email is a poor use of my cycles for doing support. In the 10 minutes that I would use to reply to one person, I could make a webmaster video that 1000+ people would benefit from, or 1/6th of a blog post that could answer other peoples' question for a year or more. Even Twitter is 1 to many instead of 1 to 1. I do get and reply to a ton of email, but when possible I try to communicate in ways that will help multiple people at once.
        mceachen 16y ago
        This is the best legitimate advertisement for twitter that I've ever read.

Bravo!

I'll be curious to collect programming-related queries where we're not returning Stack Overflow or some other site that we should. Computer science and programming queries are easy for engineers to assess and say "Ah, here's something we need to do better on."

dminor 16y ago
What's the best way to get these to you (after this article has dropped off the front page)?
- Matt_Cutts 16y ago
  I'll still circle back to this page for quite a while, or you can tweet them to me. If it's long feedback, you can blog it and tweet a link to the blog post.
  - Natsu 16y ago
    As the guy in charge of fighting webspam, maybe this will help you find or improve upon some algorithmic means of detecting when lots of unrelated wikis start to get exploited to feed up advertisements. http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=73045.0 http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=73045.0 Apparently, for a short time (until the admins fixed it), a wiki for a game I play was hijacked to spam Google. Actually, said wiki (magmawiki.com) is under attack right now from spam user accounts. I don't run the place, but I thought I'd pass the information along because it might give you something to examine and because I have to imagine that anything that helps Google identify spam-hijacked wikis would be helpful to everyone.
  - cryptoz 16y ago
    This comment made me chuckle. I agree all this should be discussed out in the open, but blogging and then tweeting links to the blog post....what happened to email!? :)
    - Matt_Cutts 16y ago
      I get way too much email already, but the main reason is that email is a poor use of my cycles for doing support. In the 10 minutes that I would use to reply to one person, I could make a webmaster video that 1000+ people would benefit from, or 1/6th of a blog post that could answer other peoples' question for a year or more. Even Twitter is 1 to many instead of 1 to 1. I do get and reply to a ton of email, but when possible I try to communicate in ways that will help multiple people at once.
      - mceachen 16y ago
        This is the best legitimate advertisement for twitter that I've ever read.