Matt Cutts
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| Born | Matthew Cutts 1972/1973 (age 51–52)[1] |
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| Alma mater | University of Kentucky (BS '95) UNC-Chapel Hill (MS '98) |
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| Occupation | Programmer | ||
| Known for | SafeSearch, Google's family filter, Webspam Team | ||
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Matthew "Matt" Cutts (born 1972 or 1973)[1] is an American software engineer. He is the former head of the web spam team at Google,[2] and is currently on leave in his role of working with the search quality team on search engine optimization issues.[3][4]
Education
Cutts received a bachelor's degree in computer science and mathematics from the University of Kentucky in 1995.[5][6] He went on to receive a Master of Science degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1998.[7]
Career
Cutts started his career in search when working on his Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In January 2000 Cutts joined Google as a software engineer.[3] At 2007 PubCon, Cutts stated that his field of study was computer science; he then moved into the field of information retrieval, and search engines after taking two outside classes from the university's Information and Library Science department.[8] Before working at the Search Quality group at Google, Cutts worked at the ads engineering group and SafeSearch, Google's family filter, which he designed.[3][9] There he earned the nickname "porn cookie guy" by giving his wife's homemade cookies to any Googler who provided an example of unwanted pornography in the search results.[10]
Cutts is one of the co-inventors listed upon a Google patent related to search engines and web spam.[11]
In 2006, The Wall Street Journal said Cutts "is to search results what Alan Greenspan was to interest rates".[12]
In November 2010, Cutts started a contest challenging developers to make Microsoft Kinect more compatible with the Linux operating system. At the time, Microsoft had stated that the use of Kinect with devices other than the Xbox 360 was not supported by them.[13]
Cutts has given advice and made statements on help related to the use of the Google search engine and related issues.[14]
In January 2012, on the news that Google had violated its own quality guidelines, Cutts defended the downgraded PageRank of the Google Chrome homepage results noting that it was not given special dispensation.[15][16]
In July 2014, a statement was released on his blog by Matt himself, stating that he was going to take a few months of leave to spend more time with his family and try new things, including a half ironman race.[17] Upon joining Google Matt agreed with his wife to work for 4–5 years and then spend a period of time together. Fifteen years later, Matt made the decision to do so.
In May 2015, Google announced it has placed someone new in Matt's position as the head of the web spam team. But unlike Matt, this person will not be an official spokesperson for publisher and webmaster issues.[18]
References
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- ↑ Acharya, A., et al., (2005) Information retrieval based on historical data
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- ↑ http://www.webpronews.com/matt-cutts-talks-keyword-density-2011-12[unreliable source?]
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Further reading
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External links
- Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO – his personal blog
- Matt Cutts at TED
- 2009 BusinessWeek profile
- Interview to Matt Cutts at SEOmoz
