Matt Cutts
Matt Cutts joined Google as a Software Engineer in January 2000. Before Google, he was working on his Ph.D. in computer graphics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has an M.S. from UNC-Chapel Hill, and B.S. degrees in both mathematics and computer science from the University of Kentucky.
Matt wrote SafeSearch, which is Google’s family filter. In addition to his experience at Google, Matt held a top-secret clearance while working for the Department of Defense, and he’s also worked at a game engine company. He claims that Google is the most fun by far.
Matt currently heads up the Webspam team for Google. Matt talks about webmaster-related issues on his blog.
Blog Posts
Generic Malware Debunking Post
--Yup, I’m about to do another blog post where someone says that a website is clean but it doesn’t look like it to us. I did a very simil...
iPhone 3G: Come on in, the Water’s Fine!
--If you read all the press on Friday, it sounded like a full-out iPocalypse as Apple’s in-store activation of the iPhone failed, which left a ...
Cool: Google Releases Protocol Buffers Into the Wild
--I love that Google just open-sourced Protocol Buffers. Think of Protocol Buffers as a very compact way of encoding data in a binary format. A progr...
The business case for goodwill
--Carolyn Y. Johnson has a great article about companies that listen online today in the Boston Globe. She mentions that Comcast and Southwest monito...
How to stop junk mail
--I’ve been learning how to stop receiving junk mail, and I thought I’d share what I’ve learned. Reducing Junk Mail There are sever...
Protect yourself: get a free credit report
--I wanted to write down 3-4 easy steps to protect yourself from identity theft and help you check your free annual credit reports. Credit check opti...
Suggest what webspam should work on next
--Today is July 1st, which is a special day because it marks the beginning of the second half of the year. Just in the last day or so there have be...
Google gets better at Flash with Adobe’s help
--If you haven’t seen the official posts, Adobe has been working to make Flash more index-able by search engines. Google has recently rolled ou...
Free search engine optimization tips for beginners
--Jefferson Graham didn’t just write an article of free SEO tips — he also brought his video camera along. The result is a five minute vi...
Crap. My Ubuntu machine won’t boot
--This sucks. On some very rare occasions, when I connect an SD card reader to my Ubuntu machine, it freezes. Normally I just reboot and everything i...
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