Search Engine

Many people obsess about every word Matt Cutts says,

but there are plenty of other Googlers that can teach us a thing or two about Google's inner workings.

At Search Engine Strategies Chicago 2006 I was on a panel with one of them:

Dan Crow, who is part of Google's search quality group and is the Product Manager for the crawl infrastructure group.

When Jill Whalen and Pauline Kerbici of High Rankings started a local organization

called Search Engine Marketing New England (SEMNE),

I suggested that they invite Dan to speak. Besides his charming British accent,

Dan's a great speaker because he knows everything about Googlebots and indexing.

Last month in Providence, nearly 100 SEMNE members and guests showed up to meet Dan.

To learn about the official presentation, you can read Jill's summary,

"Getting into Google," and Rand Fishkin's post,

"Dan Crow of Google on Crawling, Indexing & Ranking."

Instead of yet another summary, here I will cover the unofficial story,

the conversations I had with Dan before and after the main event.