Google's Gary Illyes Experiences A Huge Ranking Drop

Sep 22, 2014 - 7:47 am 2 by
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Google's Gary Illyes Skydives

There is no greater satisfaction to some than a Google search quality engineer experiencing their own very serious ranking drop. Google's Gary Illyes, a search quality engineer, went skydiving while on vacation and he quickly went from a really high ranking altitude all the way to position zero, in a matter of seconds.

Here is a public picture of Gary Illyes suited up in his ranking deficit suit.

Craig Thompson originally shared this on Google+.

This post is part of our daily Search Photo of the Day column, where we find fun and interesting photos related to the search industry and share them with our readers.

 

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