It all started with ‘Downtime is Unacceptable’, Announcing Google Grope!
January 26, 2010 – 10:24 am
A few weeks ago I wrote a simple article about why I think that ‘Downtime is Unacceptable‘ when you run an IT service. I noticed that after around 15 seconds that my article was number one on Google.com for the search phrase! Being really surprised I posted a really quick post on Twitter.
Ling saw my tweet and immediately wrote a blog post on her LingsCars.com site which took the top position on Google a few moments later. As you can guess, this started a war and over the next 48 hours I won and lost the top position several times.
So, after a bit of messing around we came up with the idea of running a weekly competition that is open to developers all around the world. We passed the idea to Jamie and he got working on the concept.
Yesterday, as a result we launched GoogleGrope at the SuperMondays event. This is a weekly competition that allows search engine and SEO experts around the world to compete for a prize. The aim is simple…the person with the top search position for a random phrase after 48 hours is the winner. Check out the website and register!
