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Disk 10 · 2011 · age about 27

Panda Update

2011, and the I-COM SEO v dev war. Friendly war. The SEO team had a teddy panda, because of Google's Panda update, so one night the dev team kidnapped it.

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It's the I-COM SEO v dev war. Friendly war. Marketing and dev had two glass offices, next to each other, so each side could see everything the other did all day.

The SEO team had a panda: a teddy panda, which they had because of the Panda update. Google's Panda update had gone after sites with thin content that year, and every SEO in the country took it personally.

So we stole the SEO panda. Me, the boss and the rest of the dev team kidnapped it overnight, and took it into a darkened room under a lamp.

Then we made a hostage video, ransoming the panda for sweets.

The next morning the SEO team found an empty desk and a video. The ransom was paid in sweets, and the panda went home unharmed. The sweets didn't last till dinner.

Proof of life, 2011: a teddy panda with a red ribbon on an office chair in a darkened room, under a desk lamp, holding up today's paper.Two glass offices side by side in 2011: SEO on the left, with their graphs on their screens and a teddy panda on a desk; dev on the right, four developers round a pod in front of a whiteboard.

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