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will_critchlow

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About will_critchlow

I co-founded an agency called Distilled in 2005, sold it to Brainlabs in 2020 and now run SearchPilot. I'm based in the UK just outside London.

In my spare time, I play basketball, drink whisky and enjoy cooking.

You can contact me at will@willcritchlow.com

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    Comment #47326635

    It seems like this is a common thing to go down the rabbit hole of. My version was trying to run pagerank on the directed graph: https://x.com/willcritchlow/status/2013598472562168…

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    Comment #42685482

    I hoped as I read that sentence that "learning" could involve learning what not to do as well as learning what to do.

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    Comment #16763267

    Has anyone ever heard of another case like this? I've been following search pretty closely for most of Google's existence and this is the only bug bounty payout I've ever heard of …

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    Comment #16690818

    More technical details here: http://www.tomanthony.co.uk/blog/google-xml-sitemap-auth-byp... (Tom works at my company)

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    Comment #15357255

    Yep. Will be sharing and writing about it too - still a bit of a work-in-progress. Hopefully it all comes together nicely! I'm leaning towards comparisons between tables of data, m…

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    Comment #15357246

    Oh - I meant to say - that quote is from this book: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596514556.do

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    Comment #15357180

    "Almost everything looks like a graph. Almost nothing should be drawn as one." It's really hard to make sense of full link graph visualisations. I'm talking about this in an upcomi…

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    Comment #13553571

    I think it's fairly similar - I remember showing Ryan a demo of our tool back when he was at 7cupsoftea before RankScience got going. We just published an update on our first year …

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    Comment #10313892

    PS - my email is in my profile if you have any questions.

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    Comment #10313887

    Distilled (www.distilled.net) is hiring in London (UK), New York City (NYC) and Seattle WA - all permanent, full-time roles. We have a whole host of open positions: https://www.dis…

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    Comment #10311564

    I'm pretty suspicious of the data and the analysis in this study - even though I "like" some of the conclusions. I wrote a post about it here: https://www.distilled.net/resources/5…

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    Comment #10303726

    "if motorists find their tax rising due to cheating by car manufacturers" This doesn't require new enforcement or new taxes - a large part of the purchase price of petrol is tax.

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    Comment #10153517

    Distilled (www.distilled.net) is hiring in London (UK), New York City (NYC) and Seattle WA - all permanent, full-time roles. We have a whole host of open positions: https://www.dis…

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    Comment #9718041

    The R&D position is based in London, though other positions are open in NYC (see the jobs page). Thanks!

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    Comment #9718037

    Yes - it is - sorry for the slow reply.