[drupal-devel] some drupal stats

[Chris Messina]

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 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 16:37:38 -0500, Morbus Iff <morbus at 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
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