Google - Code Jam

Google has launched a competition to find the best computer
programmers in Europe, with £21,000 in prize money and jobs at the
firm up for grabs.

http://www.google.com/codejameurope/


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__/ [ Paul B ] on Tuesday 02 May 2006 10:24 \__

Google has launched a competition to find the best computer
programmers in Europe, with £21,000 in prize money and jobs at the
firm up for grabs.

http://www.google.com/codejameurope/

They also launched Summer of Code a couple of days ago. This revealed a
little nugget of hypocrisy too...

http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archiv...-rel-nofollow/

In short, they rel="nofollow" real sites that are very relevant. Sorry to be
pointing at my own opinion, but I couldn't help it. In fact, I was going to
post this observation to AISE, before deciding to blog it instead.

Best wishes,

Roy

Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups (AT) schestowitz (DOT) com> wrote:

In short, they rel="nofollow" real sites that are very relevant. Sorry
to be pointing at my own opinion, but I couldn't help it. In fact, I
was going to post this observation to AISE, before deciding to blog it
instead.

I am amazed that Google supported the whole nofollow idea in the first
place. It doesn't stop comment spam / wiki spam in any way.

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Davémon <"davémon"@nospam.com> wrote:

John Bokma arranged shapes to form:

Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups (AT) schestowitz (DOT) com> wrote:

In short, they rel="nofollow" real sites that are very relevant.

I am amazed that Google supported the whole nofollow idea in the first
place. It doesn't stop comment spam / wiki spam in any way.

Supported? I thought they invented it:

I thought some others purposed it, and Google picked it up.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/...ment-spam.html

The point was never to stop your blog / wiki being spammed, but rather
to
protect their sacred 'page-rank' formula from being abused.

The fun thing is, blogging software and wiki software turn it on by
default, and a lot of users have no clue what it is or that it's even on.
Very stupid idea.

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__/ [ Davémon ] on Tuesday 02 May 2006 17:07 \__

John Bokma arranged shapes to form:

Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups (AT) schestowitz (DOT) com> wrote:

In short, they rel="nofollow" real sites that are very relevant.

I am amazed that Google supported the whole nofollow idea in the first
place. It doesn't stop comment spam / wiki spam in any way.

No, it doesn't. It just takes more brute force to plague wikis/blogs/whatever
that don't sport rel="nofollow".

Supported? I thought they invented it:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/...ment-spam.html

That's exactly right.

The point was never to stop your blog / wiki being spammed, but rather to
protect their sacred 'page-rank' formula from being abused.

That's what everybody says. How convenient (for them).

Best wishes,

Roy

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