A dozen ways to discuss “webmaster help”

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Our goal for the Webmaster Help Group is to be an authoritative source for accurate, friendly
information and discussion. There are many terrific members of the Webmaster Groups community,
and we’re glad to know them all. In our English discussion group, a big Webmaster Central (WMC)
thank-you to our comrades and fellow webmasters for their helpful knowledge and insight:
webado,
Phil Payne,
JLH,
cass-hacks,
cristina,
Sebastian, and
dockarl
just to name a few.

Webado
and
cass-hacks
both speak several languages—thankfully, some of us do as well. We now have Googlers posting
to the
Google Webmaster Help Group
in 12 languages! Here’s a brief introduction of the Googlers, most of whom work together at our
European headquarters in Dublin, in the Non-English groups (several have been posting for months,
but we’d still like to give them an intro). 🙂

French Webmaster Help Group

Salut, I come from the French city Bordeaux where I spent most of my time, before I moved to Paris
and then Dublin where I work now in Google Search Quality. When not in front of my computer, I
like to go to the cinema, play chess and organize dinners with my friends. –
Guide Google

Italian Webmaster Help Group

Ciao, my name is Stefano and I’m responsible for the Italian Webmaster Help Group. I work on
search quality issues in Italian. I’m from Italy and have been living in Ireland for more than
2 years. I do love the multicultural environment you can find in Dublin and all the people from
everywhere you get to know here, but sometimes it’s difficult to be so far away from my favorite
football team, so now and then I really have to fly back home to get a bit of Serie A. –
Guida Google

German Webmaster Help Group

Grüss Gott! My name is Uli, and I post in the German Webmaster Help Group. I am originally from
Germany but live in Ireland now. Unfortunately, I don’t have my own website to show off. The
German Help Group has grown into a big, vibrant community of very helpful and savvy webmasters,
so if you speak German, go and check it out! –
Google Webmeister Guide

Spanish Webmaster Help Group

Hola! My name is Alvar and I’ll be monitoring the Spanish Webmaster Help Group. Please join us if
you speak a word or two in Spanish 🙂 More on the personal side, I don’t own a portal or
something like that but rather a tiny blog with nearly no visibility on the Internet, and I’m
happy with that. I studied telecommunication engineering and my hobbies include soccer, foosball,
table tennis, basically almost any other sport, traveling, photography, cinema, and technology, so
I admit sitting in front of a computer can be counted as a hobby 🙂
Another important fact about me is that I’m from Barcelona, a city everyone should visit at least
once in their life. What are you waiting for? –
Guía de Google para webmasters

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Hola, I’m Rebecca. I studied to be a librarian but somehow along the way ended up being drawn into
the digital side of information. So while I still snuggle up to books at night, computers take up
most of my day. As for things I like to do (but wouldn’t go so far as to call them hobbies…) I’m
still pretty new to Dublin so I rather enjoy walking around until I’m lost and then trying to
figure out how to get back home, and then when I get back home I like to play with my cat, best
known for her fantastic
Gollum
impersonation when she gets riled up. –
Guía de Google

Dutch Webmaster Help Group

Hallo, I’m Andre. I’m very fond of Dutch music. But since living in Dublin for almost 2 years now,
my taste for music has fused with the Irish sound. I like listening to live music in pubs,
hanging out with the locals, have a pint or two and talking about upcoming gigs, artists, and all
other topics that pass the day. –
André

Swedish Webmaster Help Group

Hejsan! My name is Hessam and I’m responsible for the Swedish Webmaster Help Group. I’ve been with
Google for the last 2 years, working on search quality issues in Sweden. I’m originally from
Sweden but moved to Dublin two years ago. My main interest is traveling and living in Dublin makes
it easy to visit to all corners of Europe without blowing the budget. Thanks to cheap airlines,
it takes merely a few hours from my door to the beer gardens of Munich, wine bars of Paris, ski
slopes of Italy or beaches of Spain, depending on the mood. Looking forward to talking to you all!
–
Google Webbansvarig Guide

Finnish Webmaster Help Group

Hei, I’m Anu and I work in the Search Quality team. I’m originally from Finland but these days I
hold my umbrella high in Dublin. When I’m not online, you can catch me cycling (be it one or two
wheels), playing virtual tennis or at the airport. I’ve been bitten by the travel bug, and try to
see as many places near and far as possible. Besides all things webmaster related, I also have an
interest in foreign languages, books and films. I look forward to meeting you in the Finnish
Webmaster Help Group! –
Googlen Web-ylläpidon Ryhmän Opas

Polish Webmaster Help Group

Cześć, I’m Guglarz (it stands for Googler in Polish), the Googler on the Polish Webmaster Help
Group. I was lucky to grow up in the city of Kraków, Poland’s most beautiful city and the place
where Google recently opened a research center. I’ve been with Google for two years now and I
still love this job as much as I did the very first day. It’s my favorite hobby activity in fact.
If I don’t work, I like to keep myself busy with general aviation, running or bowling, a sport I
recently found out I was talented in. 😉 I discovered my passion for
the Internet early in school and after graduating in information science studies I was looking for
a challenging position in the industry, although after the year 2000 crash there was little hope
for that. It took me a couple of jobs in the established industries and some traveling around the
globe before I found my dream job here at Google. Ever since I started helping on the Polish
Webmaster Help Group, it has been growing rapidly, both in terms of user numbers as much as in
terms of the activity. It’s really exciting to see how Polish webmasters help each other and make
the web a more interesting place. Three group members, Cezary Lech, Umik and krzys in particular
made an effort to vitalize the community in its early days. I’d like to say dziękuję (thank you
in Polish) and please keep up the great spirit – thumbs up! –
Guglarz

Portuguese Webmaster Help Group

Olá, my name is Pedro. I’m Portuguese and I’m part of the Search Quality team. I’ve been working
at Google since March 2006 mostly focused on the Portuguese language markets. I grew up in
Tavira, a small town in the Algarve region – South of Portugal – and I always had a nerdy side,
playing with computers since my very early days when memory meant 128KB. Most of my interests
fall on my origins, I enjoy sailing and scuba diving, music is also on my top list. I’m based in
the European Headquarters – Dublin office, and I’ll be looking to strengthening contact with
Portuguese webmasters (non Portuguese are also welcome). –
Ajuda a Webmasters do Google

Russian Webmaster Help Group

Привет! My name is Oxana and I come from Moldova, a teeny tiny country
in Eastern Europe. My background is in mathematics and computer sciences and I have worked as a
web developer for more than 7 years now. Of course I have a web site, but it features only an,
unfortunately, eternal “under construction” message and a hope for a better future.
🙂 I love to read and to travel, and at the moment I am a helpless
wannabe photographer. Also, I’m a passionate WoW player and soon I’ll become the best Warlock Orc
on this side of Kalimdor! When I’m a grown-up person I work at Google on the Search Quality team
and I primarily support the Russian market. –
Оксана

Danish Webmaster Help Group

Hej, my name is Jonas, and I am from Copenhagen, the wonderful capital of beautiful Denmark. I’ve
been a webmaster of a blog since 2001, where I still drop a few lines every now and then. I am a
jack of many trades, with a background in human geography and communication, design, and media.
I’ve done some authoring for the web, but mostly administrative backends in PHP/MySQL, so they are
not that interesting. I’ve been active on Usenet for awhile as well, and spent many hours there,
getting smarter with the help of others. I’ve been with Google for a couple of years now, working
exclusively with search quality and I am now helping out in the Danish Webmaster Help Group.
Looking forward to seeing you there (: –
GoogleGuide

Written by Patrick Chapman, Search Quality Team