Google’s Matt Cutts, Cuts His Hair

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. […]

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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:


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Barry Schwartz
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Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.

In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.

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