Matt Cutts Extends His Unpaid Leave With Google Through 2015
Will Google's Matt Cutts come back to Google in 2016? Currently he is a Google employee, on leave, not being paid, but does get health benefits.
Topic: Leo Laporte
Matt Cutts: Being Google’s “Lightning Rod” For Unhappy SEOs Might Not Be Productive
Last week, the head of Google’s web spam team Matt Cutts announced that he was extending his leave. Now, Cutts has opened up a bit more about it, further suggesting he won’t return. Cutts also suggested that having himself or anyone be a public face for Google in terms of publisher issues might not be a good use […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 18, 2013
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Yandex Does What Google Can’t: Provides Bitcoin Exchange Rates How much is one US dollar in UK pounds? Google will give you a direct answer to that and many other currencies […]
Google’s Matt Cutts On Search Spammers: “We Want To Break Their Spirits”
In episode number 227 of This Week in Google on the TWiT network, Google’s head of search spam Matt Cutts answered some questions from the hosts Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis. In one question, Matt explained that Google aims to “break the spirits” of spammers in order to encourage them to change their course of […]
Larry Page Ousts Mark Zuckerberg As Most Popular On Google+
It looks like adding a suggested user list to Google+ has finally paid off in solving its “Mark Zuckerberg problem.” Facebook’s CEO is no longer the most popular person on Google+, having just now been passed by Google CEO Larry Page. Zuckerberg has been the most followed user since the first week that Google+ launched. That’s […]
Tech Celebs Most Followed On Google+ While “Real World” Rules On Twitter & Facebook
How do you measure the success of a social media site? One of several ways might be how “real world” celebrities gravitate to it. By that measure, Google+ still has a long way to go versus Twitter and Facebook, according to most followed lists. Below is a side-by-side of the top ten most followed accounts […]
Google’s “Me On The Web” Pushes Google Profiles — Take That, Facebook?
Google has launched a new “Me On The Web” section within its Google Dashboard area, which seems designed to push more people toward creating Google Profiles, as well as create greater awareness of how things that leak out of Facebook and other social networks may end up on Google. The Facebook Factor Perhaps I’m reading […]
Lost Your Tweets? You’re Not Alone
Missing some of your tweets? Yeah, you’re not going crazy. Others appear to be missing them, as well, and Twitter confirms there’s a temporary problem. Earlier today, Jill Whalen — one of the moderators at our sister-site Sphinn — noticed that our Sphinn account only had three tweets when she looked at it, all from […]
Why I’m Not Deleting My Facebook Account (Yet)
Jason Calacanis plans to commit “Facebook suicide” today and become the latest in a line of prominent tech people to delete their accounts. I considered doing the same back in December but have hung in there. That’s not due to gaining more faith in Facebook. Instead, I shifted to sharing via a fan page. You […]
Why I’m NOT Drinking The “Real-time Local Search” Kool-Aid
I’m hearing more and more about “Real-Time Local Search” – that phrase is popping up everywhere; but I’m just not buying the hype that positions it as some amazing new essence that businesses and consumers must embrace… sorry. I acknowledge that it’s useful to have a label to refer to this concept, but is it […]