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Matt Cutts

Matt Cutts

I'm the head of the webspam team at Google.
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Today's webmaster video: Can a link to a page disallowed in robots.txt still receive PageRank? http://www.youtube.com/GoogleW...
Google has a "Switch from Exchange" page: http://www.google.com/apps... Pretty good use of video--real people with concrete numbers
RT googleos: Google Voice lets you change your number. Just go to Settings > Phones. via @googlevoice
Nice - Angus Burton
Firefox 3.5 has some really sizzly improvements: TraceMonkey, Offline support, etc. Congrats to Mozilla! http://www.mozilla.com/en-US...
i'd like to test how many plugins will stop working... i'd probably die without Firebug! - gareth【ツ】
@gareth: Firebug works since 3.5 beta releases. No need to worry. Here's a small list of currently unavailable add-ons for 3.5. http://ff.im/4DlIZ You may want to share your own disappointments too ;) - Berk D. Demir
I got a beta version of firebug for 3.5 :), berks got it covered - Mark Essel via iPhone
@MatthewForzan just approved it. I had an all-day meeting today, so I'm behind on a bunch of stuff.
@MatthewForzan not sure I understood your line of reasoning?
@davemcclure what are you talking about? It could be bigger than people search, bigger even than the deep web! :)
@harknesslabs Just guessing, but it might depend on how you do it, e.g. POP/IMAP vs. forwarding? Trick is not labeling orig account as spam?
Today's webmaster video: Can my blogroll affect my blog's reputation in Google? http://www.youtube.com/GoogleW...
@henweb Thanks!
@learningSEO which site? I think the team is rolling out rich snippets cautiously at first.
@HortonWebDesign sounds like a good 30 experiment.
@vx8 that's more of a one-time activity, not 30 days.
30 day challenge begins: biking to work - http://www.mattcutts.com/blog...
if you find it hard one day... please think that you do it for the web! (also would be very lol a t-shirt with "i do not like biking, i just do it for the web") haha - righini riprova
The bottom of FriendFeed's page should have a "Best of day" link. That way people who scroll to the bottom of the page would be offered something new to do to stay on FriendFeed instead of leaving.
When I'm at the bottom of the page, I go back to top... by then something different has usually come up. - Paola
I don't want the bottom to be more interesting, that way I can get back to work when I get there. ;-) - Ruchira S. Datta
scrolling back to the top works well... - Geer
Why not just click on Older Items, and then you can see he same items you just saw (i.e. whatever items now have numbers 31-60) in a different order? - j1m
j1m, at least the way I do FF is scan the page to see what's going on now, then scan the best of day if I want to read more. I had never clicked on Older Items until you mentioned it, and have to say I probably won't again. But if you had a "best of day" link at the bottom of the page, I would stay on FF longer. - Matt Cutts
high engagement, poor recirculation. i imagine (hope) this will change in the future. - sean percival
how about a shortcut key that automatically brought you to the top of the page... thats where the freshest content would be plus scrolling can be terrible if youve opened a thread with lots of comments - Frankie Warren
pageless scrolling is nice too :) let them go all the way down this river. - sean percival
they should at least integrate a button to jump to the top of the page? - Hans Kainz
I think that is a good tip - alfred westerveld
For the folder-lovers among you, Gmail just added drag-and-drop for messages: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009...
For the month of July, I'm going to bike to work: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog... Do you want to try something new for 30 days?
We did a bike to work month in Zurich in June, it was fun! - John Mueller
so the poll picked this one, cool that's what I picked - Jim Gaudet
Yay! For me, not biking to work for 30 days would be new. :) - Piaw Na
@LornaHarris glad we got you close. Tennis names from 1991 (Lendl, McEnroe, Jimmy Connors) are more familiar to me than current crop. :|
@LornaHarris sorry, was talking to my wife on the phone. Found http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport... , but pre-web pictures are hard. :)
@paulcarr good morning, sunshine!
@LornaHarris out o curiosity, what were you looking for?
@HeathWhiteaker yup, it's WordPress with Thesis for the theme. Thesis isn't perfect, but I like it a lot.
"If you haven't heard about Google Voice, you will. If you're not excited about it, you should be." http://www.computerworld.com/action...
I managed to lock myself out of my old Grandcentral account. I can't wait for this to open up already so I can enjoy the service again. - Brandon Mendelson
I'm waiting :) - Roberto Scano
I'm not trying to be silly but - no -I have no interest in Google voice. Maybe I don't understand the product. - LPH™ and his dog P™ via BuddyFeed
i've been using GrandCentral for a couple of years now, and it has been great- when i was overseas i was getting phone calls through the Gizmo softphone on my computer and i never had to tell anyone a new number. - Nathan Eckenrode
LPH - i wasn't super excited at first. the whole SMS think is a bit wonky. But for phone calls incoming it's awesome with call screening and "spam" filtering. The best is the first time i opened up the webpage and dialed an overseas #, and routed it to my cell phone, then 10 min later walked in the front door and seamlessly transferred it to my home phone..... to continue the call there. WOW - Jeff Douglass
I'd like to use Google Voice, but I don't want to give up the cell number I've had for 8 years. So I'm waiting until I can port my number to it. - Evan Parker via iPhone
Google Voice is AWESOME, I have been using it since the day it was launched as Voice, it is the best way to filter your calls - period, I use one number for business and personal and I can control who gets blocked, who goes to voicemail, I even rigged it so I could leave myself voice notes that are transcribed to my email! I want to get another Voice # but I heard you can only add phone numbers to one Google Voice #, you can't add them to multiples, is that true? - Kelly Johns
Have it, use it ... It rocks - Charlie Anzman
Sometimes email spam is so brain-dead that it's funny: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog...
I %SI3_rnd10 rod’s %SI3_rnd11 and %SI3_rnd12 %SI3_rnd13’ you! - Tamar Weinberg
Today's webmaster video: When will the data in Webmaster Tools be improved? http://www.youtube.com/GoogleW...
Enjoy today's webmaster video: Do dates in URLs determine freshness? http://www.youtube.com/watch...
Enjoy today's webmaster video: Do dates in URLs determine freshness? http://bit.ly/16iQ62
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o dates in URLs determine freshness? - rajesh kumar
@jagermo my (personal, uninformed) guess is that telephonic stuff is different/special/unique in each country?
@parislemon Real Housewives of Orange County. Reunion show. Part 2?
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