Boris, I wonder if you're referring to the same offer that Matt got from Google? Chris On Mar 31, 2005 8:26 AM, Boris Mann <borismann@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 16:37:38 -0500, Morbus Iff <morbus@disobey.com> wrote:
Regarding your other stats post, see:
http://www.waxy.org/archive/2005/03/30/wordpres.shtml
Kinda interestin' in a "wtf?" sorta way.
Pretty much everyone on the devel list should follow that link and read up. In summary: * Wordpress.org got paid to host a link farm * they used hidden link techniques to hide it off the front page * lots of people are pissed, and Google is nuking all those pages from their index
Lots of people are defending Matt (lead of WP) saying "he needed the money to make more good Wordpress stuff". Regardless of that, I think it was a bad choice -- a link farm is a link farm.
However, on the making-money-for-the-project angle....Dries, do you want to bring up the Google issue?
-- Boris Mann http://www.bryght.com