And now, the moment we’ve all been waiting for, the highlight of the search year … the Matt & Danny show, aka You & A with Matt Cutts. Matt McGee: I know you’re all waiting for Matt Cutts. I just got a text from him. Says he’s running late, got caught up at the black […]
I’ve mentioned before that the Danny Sullivan – Matt Cutts conversations are my favorite parts of search conferences. In this case, it was also a chance to watch a potentially significant search & social feature get hatched. Matt had used the forum to announce the launch of Google’s “block this site” feature on their search […]
What a week for content farms! Here’s the brief overview: On Friday Matt Cutts acknowledged some influential bloggers’ criticisms that Google had a faustian deal with Content Farms that were making Google worse. IMO Matt’s statement boiled down to: You’re wrong, Google is getting better, not worse, and we keep trying to keep up with […]
A few weeks ago I asked people to chime in on whether Google search results were getting better or worse. Well, Matt Cutts just did. Here are his key points: Google results are getting better. “The short answer is that according to the evaluation metrics that we’ve refined over more than a decade, Google’s search […]
It seems that every search conference I attend Microsoft has a new guy representing them. And except when they sent Ballmer they’ve generally failed. Last year’s PubCon ended with a smackdown between the search engines, and Google’s Matt Cutts looked like he was sitting in his living room entertaining his guests while the Bing rep […]