I did not take a picture of the very large crowd that gathered on the third floor of the Hilton for Google’s Lunch.  Nor was the lunch, such as it was, as satisfying to me as personally meeting the Google Engineers, which happened last Summer at WebMasterworld in New Orleans.

I did not stay for the entire lunch session because the information appeared to be directed to a large audience rather then the more specialized tracts I’m here for.

Google Site Maps and Robots.txt checker were the main subjects, at least when I was there, with some general guidelines mentioned by Matt Cutts.

Matt talked about redirects and said that having more than 5 redirects chained together was probably too many and the search engine will often get confused when this happens.  He also talked about the Robots.txt tool that Google went live with last month and suggests everyone test their pages with it.