Google’s Matt Cutts, Cuts His Hair

Oct 21, 2009 at 6:15pm ET by Barry Schwartz

Matt Cutts, known as Google’s search spam tsar, recently had a hair cut. Many people from the search industry noticed Matt’s new hair cut at recent search conferences. In short, Matt lost a bet about a release date of one of Google’s products and as a consequence, had to shave the hair off his head.

Brian White, from the team Matt works on at Google, tweeted a link to a video of the actual hair cut. Yes, they made a pretty fun video showing off the hair cut process for all SEOs and search folks to enjoy in the industry. Here is the video:

Barry Schwartz is Search Engine Land's News Editor and owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry's personal blog is named Cartoon Barry and he can be followed on Twitter here.

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ONE COMMENT ON Google’s Matt Cutts, Cuts His Hair

Michael Martin, October 21st, 2009 at 6:26 pm ET:

Matt should do a time lapse of its regrowth – see what he has on top at PubCon next month.

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