Google hires Adam Lasnik

May 15th, 2006

I noticed over the weekend Google has created a new position, “Search Evangelist”, the duties include:

* External communications: Improving and extending Google’s relationship with Webmasters by engaging in online and offline conversations and ensuring such communications are scalable long term. * Internal communications: Effectively sharing Webmasters concerns, bug reports, and other feedback with pertinent teams throughout the organization and working with engineers and product managers to refine tools and processes to address these issues. * Index Quality Enhancement: Analyzing Web spam trends and helping colleagues fine tune indexing and ranking algorithms. * Miscellaneous communications: Assisting teams with various projects.

The brain child of Matt Cutt’s who has been Google’s community face for a long time. He has hired Adam Lasnik for this role of keeping webmasters in touch with G. It is a very positive step and I’m sure Adam’s name is one we shall soon see participating in major SE forums over the next few months.

While we are talking about new things, we have just started some work for Voici.co.uk, who sell a range of vintage clothes, jewellery, handbags and all sorts. We didn’t build the site on this one and although it’s not your “typical” e-commerce layout, I personally like it.