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Is 39 the New 28 at Google?
- markbao 18y agoGoogle: "Because these promotions [for special times] appear on our homepage for only a few days at a time, we don’t consider them in our official homepage word count." When I read this, the only thing on my mind was: Why do people freaking care?
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- jaydub 18y agoWhy do people freaking care? How many websites get NY Times coverage for adding 11 words to their homepage? People care because of the significant weight this ostensibly small change carries.
- westside1506 18y agoMan, I was hoping the article would be about 39-year-olds being better than 28-year-olds at something. :)
- vlad 18y agoHere's some background history, but I don't recall the source. Google used to receive anonymous e-mails containing nothing but a number. Eventually, they figured out what this hint meant. Google made a sparse homepage a part of their identity.
- jeroen 18y agoThe story was in the privacy-link announcement. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/what-comes-next-in-this-series-13-33-53.html http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/what-comes-next-in-th...
- vlad 18y agoThanks! Nice find! I actually recalled this from reading about Google in some article four or five years ago, but it's nice to have a link to the information straight from the horse's mouth.
- mattmaroon 18y agoWow, was that boring and uninformative.
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