“Google Strokes the Porn Guy”, that’s the headline for the article that ran in the Easter Sunday edition of The New York Post; several hours of genuinely interesting conversation with writer Damon Brown about sex and technology and art and filmmaking, boiled down to by the Post’s editors to 300 words that quite nearly get the story Google story straight. A couple of corrections:
1) I didn’t write to Google. I wrote Violet Blue, who made this post to her blog. Her post was picked up by Boing Boing. Somewhere in that chain of events is where our problem came to the attention of Google’s Matt Cutts, who was responsive and helpful.
2) The Post article makes it sound like I passed on private e-mail. I didn’t. I did point the writer to this post, Google’s Matt Cutts Wants to Know More About Sex, where, with Matt Cutt’s permission, I published our e-mail exchange.
The list of “porn guy strokers” (ugh) should also include Seth Finkelstein, Phillip Lenssen, Barry Schwartz and Danny Sullivan, SEO/Google experts who were extremely generous in helping me getting our Google situation sorted out. Shit like this is nerve-wracking, their moral support was as appreciated as the technical insight!