Bottom Slurping for Google Juice from Kate Kaye ClickZ is a fairly jaw-dropping story of Associated Content, a site cofounded by Google vice president of advertising sales
Tim Armstrong, that might very well be generating the type of AdSense-powered crud that pollutes Google and other search engines as I
just mentioned earlier today. Armstrong is also a board member of the company. [Postscript: Also on the board is Yahoo board member Eric

Google’s top execs taking salaries of only $1 is
old news. The cost of protecting them, especially Google CEO Eric Schmidt, is considerably more. Over half a million dollars, $532,755 to be exact, to protect Schmidt. That’s according to company’s latest financial filings,
reports the New York Times.
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I’ve written before about how there are many women are involved in search and search marketing, but blogrolls like ours can still feel man heavy. Fortunately, there are some new blogs up from women in search, including Google Webmaster Central’s Vanessa Fox. Here’s a round-up.
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The Matt Cutts Blog Gets Hacked The Dark SEO Team has had a bit of a beef with Google’s Matt Cutts from back in 2005 over URL hijacking. Looks like they’ve pulled a prank on him today. Matt’s blog is down, hacked — and archives wiped out as well. Matt has posted previously to this about the site being slow (post gone, but you can see his Twitter comment here) and heading offline through Monday, so you might be seeing the screen above fo

Goodness knows Google’s Matt Cutts is popular at conferences. I’ve seen him swamped by people at them. In fact, so many people surround Matt wherever he goes that I nicknamed them "Cuttlets" last year and wondered if they’d ever form a formal fan club. Well, turns out they’ve done more than that. Fans of Matt are assembling for the first ever CuttsCon later this year — and Matt will be there, as well. Appropriately, it will be in

Gary Price pointed me to a Yahoo SEC filing that shows some of Yahoo’s executives are eligible for a cash bonus incentive of up to $1 million each year throughout 2009. News.com points to a Google SEC filing that shows that some of Google’s executives are eligible for a cash bonus incentive of up to $4.5 million in 2007. Yahoo executive Susan Decker received a $850,000 bonus, Yahoo’s Farzad Nazem received a $700,000 bonus , and Yahoo’s Michael

Google announced that Michael Moritz, a Google board of director member since May 1999, said he will not seek re-election. Michael Moritz is a general partner of Sequoia Capital, before joining Sequoia in 1986 he worked at Time Warner and founded Technologic Partners. “I’m delighted to have played a role in these achievements and, along with my partners at Sequoia, look forward to identifying and supporting new businesses, in partnership with

Iinnovate has an excellent interview with Google’s CEO, Eric Schmidt. He discusses many topics around the theme of entrepreneurship and management but also touches on other topics during the 20-minute interview. One point Danny and I found interesting from the interview was how he replied to the question on “what the characteristics of an entrepreneur?” They specifically noted YouTube, as an example to an entrepreneurial type of company when th

Google Atlanta is holding an open house for their new office on Thursday, March 22nd. President Jimmy Carter is scheduled to be giving the welcoming remarks. In addition, those invited will be given a tour of the office and meet with Google engineers and sales executives.

Google class debuts at the UW via the SeattlePI reports that Google is holding a class at the University Of Washington to teach a unique style of programming. Google software engineer, Chistophe Bisciglia, dreamt up the idea, to spend 10% of his Google time, teaching a class on “creating programming prodigies and revamping the way colleges teach computer science.” The article explains that this course will “teach students to use 40 computers to solve problems such as how many times the word

A reader (shor) pointed me to a site at http://cangooglehearme.com/, that tells the story of a guy named Aaron who wanted to meet with Google. Aaron had a business proposal, but his attempts to contact Google via phone or email did not work. So he decided to fly to Google, sit outside Google for several days, until someone at Google would agree to meet with him

Mark Malseed’s The Story of Sergey Brin is one of the most detailed and comprehensive write ups I have send on the Google founder. I did not read the full write up, but I believe it takes Sergey’s Jewish heritage as the angle for the article.

A Keynote
Conversation with Google’s Matt Cutts from Search Engine Roundtable provides
live blogging of Google’s Matt Cutts talking to Search Engine Land executive
editor Chris Sherman during the keynote at
SES London today.
Matt covers:

Eloping, a nice Valentine’s Day topic
His typical day fighting spam
Google search algorithm evolution
Debunking myths
How SEOs might react to Google’s expanded personalized search results (see
here and
here for more
about those)
He calls

Philipp Lenssen reports that Google launched a new blog named the Google Test Blog. The Welcome to the Google Testing Blog by Google Engineer, Allen Hutchison, explains that Google will be sharing their debugging and testing experiences with the public.
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Google — officially the best place to work. So says the latest survey from
Fortune. But then again, Google’s got to keep the standards high as pre-IPO
employees leave. A San Francisco Chronicle article also out covers how one-third
of Google’s first 300 employees have gone, along with some comments on the
culture getting more conservative.

Dear Wikipedia Editors:
I came back from vacation today to

discover that in (some of) your infinite crowd wisdom, apparently
the page at Wikipedia
about Google’s Matt Cutts

might get deleted. Wow. It’s inept things like this that can instantly
reduce any respect I have for Wikipedia that builds up over time.

Shoe Money has an excellent post where he asks different marketers, Would You Hire Matt Cutts? based on recent unconfirmed rumors that Matt is looking for new work. Let me first state that these are rumors and Matt has not confirmed this. So what did the marketers say? Not surprisingly, they would all love to hire Matt.

MediaPost reports Google has hired Michael Steib, the general manager of strategic ventures at NBC Universal. A Google spokesperson said: “We are pleased to have Michael Steib join the Google team to help us work with advertisers to create effective, measurable video advertising.” Googl added, “As we continue to grow our video ads business, Michael’s experience in Internet and media will help us succeed.” Steib will work under Tim Armstrong, Vice President of Advertising Sales, as the lead of new ad sales (specifically, I assume for the video products).

Matt Cutts has a fascinating post in his Gadgets, Google and SEO blog entitled, “The real lesson from this week.” He rhetorically asks, “So what does Google need to keep us on the right path?” And his answer is, “I think what Google needs is more bloggers. I’m using a liberal definition of bloggers here; I mean people who monitor the blogosphere

Google Answer to Filling Jobs Is an Algorithm at the NY Times (also at International Herald Tribune) describes how Google is changing their hiring process to accept a more diverse set of candidates. They have designed a detailed online survey that is now being sent out to Google’s job application database

About Transferable Stock Options at the Official Google Blog covers how
Google is now allowing most of its employees to auction off their stock options
to financial institutions through a bidding process. Previously, employees could
either hold their options or sell them directly themselves. The idea is that the
bidding process might help employees get a better price on their shares than if
they sold directly, if particular institutions wanted to pay a premium

Ever wonder what is going through the head of a Matt Cutts (Googler) while he is sitting on a site reviews panel reviewing sites? Matt Cutts posted his detailed notes of the panel he did in Vegas at PubCon. He explains some on site problems and mistakes a webmaster should avoid. It is worth a read, because Matt totally kicked my coverage of that session.

Online Recruitment reports on a CollegeGrad.com poll showing Google is the most desired place for technology students to work for. The poll asked 1,600 respondents in October “Who would you rather work for?” The results:

Google - 49%
Microsoft - 29%
Yahoo - 12%
IBM - 10%

Reuters reports that Google is going to be adding 500 new jobs in the Dublin, Ireland office. This will make the Dublin office fairly large with 1,300 people, after first opening in 2004. If you are looking for a job in that area, you can check out the job openings page here.