Matt gets a mention from the Register

September 30, 2003 9:39 PM

Matt gets a mention from the Guardian (along with somebody named Kottke...whoever that is).
posted by mr_crash_davis to MetaFilter-Related at 9:39 PM (20 comments total)

Guardian, Register, whatever. It's all English.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 9:44 PM on September 30, 2003

kottke, haughey, whatever.
posted by quonsar at 9:45 PM on September 30, 2003

I always thought Matt was a little cold, almost reptillian, in his admiration for Google.
posted by The God Complex at 10:03 PM on September 30, 2003

Interesting that this article gets linked to for its connection with Matt when it's essentially challenging the google's superiority as a myth and claiming page rank is fundamentally broken. This is pretty big stuff, if not new...
posted by namespan at 10:45 PM on September 30, 2003

Why do you hate England so much _crash?

;-)
posted by i_cola at 11:54 PM on September 30, 2003

I always thought Matt was a little cold, almost reptillian, in his admiration for Google

I bash it when it doesn't do well, like I did on the posts Andrew O linked to. I eventually recanted after hearing about the Microdoc study, though.

Anyway, it's old news. I don't know why the article just surfaced about stuff posted a couple months ago.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 1:29 AM on October 1, 2003

I bash it when it doesn't do well, like I did on the posts Andrew O linked to. I eventually recanted after hearing about the Microdoc study, though.

Actually, the "warmest admirers" phrase just struck me as being kind of odd, for whatever reason (as if there's a good deal of cold admiration going around), and then I had this vision of a man-sized reptile hunched over a keyboard in the blue-glow of metafilter wearing an oversized robe and eating the occasional insect. Then I thought, "I bet if a man-lizard screamed it would sound garbled and inhuman."

Then I was like "Hey, if I delete all this weird stuff about the man lizard it won't seem so weird," but I realize now the reptillian comment made no sense without all the other nonsensical rubbish to contextualize the nonsense.
posted by The God Complex at 1:39 AM on October 1, 2003

God I hate the register.
posted by walrus at 2:10 AM on October 1, 2003

But having an outside source identify you as one of Google's "warmest admirers" will no doubt result in their sweetening their eventual offer for Metafilter.
posted by rushmc at 5:16 AM on October 1, 2003

Namespan: I'd view anything written by Andrew Orlowski with an entire shaker of salt. The guy's writing opinion pieces disguised as news.
posted by rcade at 5:26 AM on October 1, 2003

kottke sucks!
posted by mcsweetie at 5:47 AM on October 1, 2003

The guy's writing opinion pieces disguised as news.

Just one of the crowd, then...
posted by Jimbob at 5:54 AM on October 1, 2003

I had this vision of a man-sized reptile hunched over a keyboard in the blue-glow of metafilter wearing an oversized robe and eating the occasional insect.

I know who were thinking of...
posted by soyjoy at 8:09 AM on October 1, 2003

God I hate the register.

Me too. It's a load of cynicism and negativity dressed up as edgy reporting, and I'm someone who usually stands up for gratuitous cynicism. It's very, very shoddily researched and mostly very poorly written.
posted by Summer at 8:11 AM on October 1, 2003

The guy's writing opinion pieces disguised as news.

As if there's any other kind of article.
posted by angry modem at 8:25 AM on October 1, 2003

It's easy to point out the anomalies of a popularity-based system like PageRank, but what other judgement criteria do you have? You, me and Kottke himself might find it ridiculous, but the Web has voted Kottke's blog as one of its most important sites. All Google does is report that fact.
posted by timeistight at 9:05 AM on October 1, 2003

I hate anyone whose links are a different colour and underlined with those silly dashes...
posted by i_cola at 9:49 AM on October 1, 2003

I like The Register, I find it's "cynicism" humourous, and tongue-in-cheek.

And anyway, they're Scottish, aren't they?
posted by Blue Stone at 10:01 AM on October 1, 2003

Andrew O has an awful lot of his credibility hanging on the "blogs are ruining Google" meme. Way back in May, he predicted that Google would seperate blogs from its general search, and he's been trying to avoid admitting that prediction was totally lacking in fact, and actually, nothing but wishful thinking on his part.
Self-link: When I had way too much time on my hands earlier this year, I blogged about how Orlowski was/should be The Blog World's Most Hated Journalist, after which I pledged NOT to make my carreer out of Fisking..
posted by wendell at 3:05 PM on October 1, 2003

load of cynicism and negativity dressed up as edgy reporting [...] very, very shoddily researched and mostly very poorly written.

Well said.
posted by walrus at 2:14 AM on October 2, 2003