The engineer Google doesn't want you to see
Owen Thomas · 04/15/08 05:40PMWho is Jayant Madhavan? Google would just as soon you not know. The programmer featured prominently in a recent post on SearchEngineWatch about a troubling new Web-search routine: Madhavan's research would have Google's bots attempt to fill in Web-based forms meant for humans, in an attempt to discover more Web pages to index. Madhavan's picture appears on a Google bio page describing his research. SearchEngineWatch's editors reproduced it next to their post. Google's control-freaky PR reps demanded SearchEngineWatch take it down.