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Since both tennis and table tennis are in the Olympics, perhaps you're wondering: if there's soccer, why not "table soccer?" Of course, we know table soccer by another name; and while foosball may not be an Olympic sport, we still cheered Nathan Johns and Jan Backes—two members of our Search Quality team—as they brought home the foosball silver medal at the search engine foosball smackdown at SES San Jose.

"Smackdown" doesn't quite equate to "Olympics," but check out the intensity—you could hear a pin drop!


The gold medal (cup) went to the search engine down the road. :)


Just to be sure they weren't ringers, I quizzed Daniel and Jake, "How can you prevent a file from being crawled?" They correctly answered, "robots.txt."

Gold cup well deserved.

Written by Maile Ohye, Developer Programs Tech Lead

Want to know what's new on the Webmaster Central YouTube channel? Here's what we've uploaded in the past week:

Maile Ohye gave a webmaster-focused presentation about Product Search.

Matt Cutts answered a new question each day from the Grab Bag:

• Do dates in URLs determine freshness?
• What impact does "page bloat" have on Google rankings?
• What types of directories are seen as sources of paid links?
• Should I include my logo text using the 'alt' attribute or CSS?
• What's the preferred way to check for links to my site?

To get you started on watching this latest batch of videos, here's Matt's answer about directories and paid links:



Feel free to leave comments letting us know how you liked the videos, and if you have any specific questions, ask the experts in the Webmaster Help Forum.

Posted by Michael Wyszomierski, Search Quality Team