# silver_medal_count++

Friday, August 22, 2008


Since both tennis and table tennis are in the Olympics, perhaps you're wondering: if there's
soccer, why not "table soccer?" Of course, we know table soccer by another name; and while
foosball may not be an Olympic sport, we still cheered
[Nathan Johns](https://groups.google.com/groups/profile?enc_user=WK4EdjIAAAC0ZCEBAysSlShC_gPAdXUZJ31f1-vno4-vNONVWkdcRC59UrlVIFDOPM1XUGdlax0vPp-8dun_mzBPI6iup1z0)
and [Jan Backes](https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2008/04/recap-von-der-smx-muenchen)---two members of
our Search Quality team---as they brought home the foosball silver medal at the
[search engine foosball smackdown](https://www.stonetemple.com/blog/?p=277)
at SES San Jose.


"Smackdown" doesn't quite equate to "Olympics," but check out the intensity---you could hear a
pin drop!
![silver medalists at foosball](https://developers.google.com/static/search/blog/images/import/2c9ba47e06465cc02814b4b72cc81f9a.jpg)


The gold medal (cup) went to the
[search engine down the road](https://www.yahoo.com/). :)

![gold medalists at foosball](https://developers.google.com/static/search/blog/images/import/67f9acedf2f6c30d6d2435e053cf421e.jpg)


Just to be sure they weren't ringers, I quizzed Daniel and Jake, "How can you prevent a file from
being crawled?" They correctly answered,
"[robots.txt](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/robots/intro)."

Gold cup well deserved.

Written by [Maile Ohye](https://developers.google.com/search/blog/authors/maile-ohye), Developer Programs Tech Lead