Comment Re:Why is everyone so happy about personal project (Score 1) 458
...exactly.
It's also a means by which Google can pay an engineer or other 'smart person' less. It's the modern equivalent of the pinball machine and free pop machine.
"Hey, we're cooooooool. You can do your own research (which we'll own! sign that NDA now!)."
It'd be nice to see Google put some effort into depressing the value of link farms, and stop doing directory crawls to populate their search results. The Yahoo algorithim is starting to show some signs of this happening, and if it keeps going, they're likely to offer better quality search results fairly soon. Link farms suck.
It's also a means by which Google can pay an engineer or other 'smart person' less. It's the modern equivalent of the pinball machine and free pop machine.
"Hey, we're cooooooool. You can do your own research (which we'll own! sign that NDA now!)."
It'd be nice to see Google put some effort into depressing the value of link farms, and stop doing directory crawls to populate their search results. The Yahoo algorithim is starting to show some signs of this happening, and if it keeps going, they're likely to offer better quality search results fairly soon. Link farms suck.
