Matt Cutts Latest search engine news blog articles from Matt Cutts. http://www.seocentro.com/seo-archives/publisher/Matt+Cutts.html Matt Cutts News Archive http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=13219 To get Google Mobile App on your iPhone, go to the App Store and search for "Google Mobile App," or click on this link to install from a computer. If you have an older version of Google Mobile App installed, you might want to uninstall the older version before installing the newer version. Voice recognition is turned off by default for non-U.S. users. To enable voice recognition, Search Engines News SEO News Matt Cutts Matt Cutts Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:36:56 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=13217 I have a very good feeling about Google's new iPhone app that does voice recognition . I've been playing with this voice recognition application for several weeks and I have to say that I'm really impressed. First and foremost, the voice recognition works really well . Crazy long-tail specialized vocabulary is tricky (more on that later), but for queries with normal words in them, the voice recognition is really accurate and I think it will get even better. Search Engines News SEO News Matt Cutts Matt Cutts Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:34:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=13168 I'm not sure what Google Docs market share is, but I thought it would be interesting to mention a couple data points and add a new data point. Data point #1: Compete . Compete just estimated that 4.4M visitors stopped by Google Docs in September, which is just a hair below 2.4% of the U.S. online population, according to them. Compete buys data from ISPs , among other sources, but doesn't reveal which ISPs sell their surfing data, Search Engines News SEO News Matt Cutts Matt Cutts Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:31:11 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=13038 I arrive Wednesday afternoon for the 2008 Pubcon conference , and I'll be staying until after the networking event on the last day, which is the heart of the event. It's the heart because the networking event is held at a pub, and the original idea of Pubcon was that some of the best parts of a conference take place at the pub after the official conference is done. If you see me, please come up and say hello! Tell me how you're doing, Search Engines News SEO News Matt Cutts Matt Cutts Wed, 12 Nov 2008 05:28:26 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12945 Every so often I get an email like this: Dear Webmaster, I have browsed your site and I'm interested in purchasing advertising space in it. I am mainly interested in placing a new page on your site with content and links that I will supply. Please let me know if you would like to discuss this further or if you have other ideas. Kind Regards, Rob Normally I just delete junk like this, but I decided to reply. Search Engines News SEO News Matt Cutts Matt Cutts Sat, 08 Nov 2008 00:18:24 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12694 You probably saw Google's Halloween logo today: But you may not have noticed that Google made another change for Halloween. Check out Google's robots.txt file today: That's right. Zombies are disallowed from accessing /brains on Google today. You can never be too safe! Search Engines News SEO News Matt Cutts Matt Cutts Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:31:51 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12465 Pay no attention this to page with a noindex tag . I just want to check on how Yahoo/Live/Ask treat pages with noindex meta tags. Search Engines News SEO News Matt Cutts Matt Cutts Mon, 27 Oct 2008 02:17:10 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12324 At 9 a.m. Pacific time (noon Eastern) today, we're going to do our third Google webmaster chat. People will be able to ask questions via Google moderator and we'll answer a bunch either in Google moderator or over the audio portion of the chat. There will also be several Googlers doing short presentations. I hope to chat with lots of people, so please thinking about signing up. Here's how to do it . Search Engines News SEO News Matt Cutts Matt Cutts Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:03:55 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12157 I'm really happy about a new experiment that we're trying that has the potential to help a ton of site owners. A new blog post on the Google webmaster blog (you are subscribed to the webmaster blog, right? You'll find at least as much good SEO and search-related info on that blog as on my blog) mentions that we're alerting webmasters to vulnerable webserver software . There's been a recent trend of spammers hacking websites, Search Engines News SEO News Matt Cutts Matt Cutts Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:59:02 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12037 I can't believe a new feature from Google isn't getting more notice, because it converts already-existing links to your site into much higher quality links, for free . The Google webmaster blog just announced that you can find the pages that link to 404 pages on your site . Let me back up and give you a little history. When someone comes to your site's webserver and asks for a page that doesn't exist, like http://www.mattcutts.com/asdfasdfasdf , Search Engines News SEO News Matt Cutts Matt Cutts Tue, 14 Oct 2008 06:54:31 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11753 Om Malik wrote an interesting post about Google Chrome one month after the public launch . While I was reading Om's post, I realized that I wrote a post for the Google Chrome release that I never published. I'll include it here, and then let's meet at the bottom and compare notes. Like many Google engineers, I've been running Google Chrome for several months. When I sat down with a blank piece of paper to write down why you should try Google Chrome, Search Engines News SEO News Matt Cutts Matt Cutts Mon, 06 Oct 2008 05:30:45 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11731 I tried to leave a comment on pixelrn.com but the problem with talking about hacked sites is that you often end up using language that gets flagged as spammy. Here's what I tried to say but the WordPress installation over on pixelrn wouldn't let me: Hi Beth, I checked and it doesn't look like you have any spam-related penalties or anything like that. For a long time, something seemed wonky on your WordPress where http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:c_RD9jcaIRUJ:www. Search Engines News SEO News Matt Cutts Matt Cutts Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:17:06 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11662 Okay, I'll help on this. A Google blog post and the corresponding video ask people to register to vote (find out how at http://maps.google.com/vote ) and/or send this video to five of their friends. I'm game for that, mainly because Jonah Hill is the funniest man in the world and he says to do it. If Jonah ever starts lifecasting, that would end my productivity for life. So here's the video: And I'm registered to vote, Search Engines News SEO News Matt Cutts Matt Cutts Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:23:45 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11642 More and more people are spending free time (and work time) online and lots of those people want to discover interesting things on the web. Google Blogsearch's new home page applies that insight with a browsable version of what's going on in the blogosphere . The UI design is a little reminiscent of Google News, but the new Blogsearch home page uses a lot of different code. It's great to see this new home page go live, Search Engines News SEO News Matt Cutts Matt Cutts Thu, 02 Oct 2008 05:36:55 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11379 Here's a fun link for you. Google just released a free service called Google Moderator . This is a port to Google App Engine of an existing tool we use all the time at Google. Internally it was called Dory (after the fish who asked questions all the time in Finding Nemo ). What does Google Moderator do? When we have tech talks or company-wide meetings, it lets anyone ask a question and then people can vote up the questions that they'd like answered. Search Engines News SEO News Matt Cutts Matt Cutts Thu, 25 Sep 2008 04:11:45 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10668 Yesterday John Battelle emailed me to ask about Rae's post . This will be a little inside baseball to some people who don't live and breathe search and Twitter , but I figured I'd take what I emailed to John, add some pictures, and post it here. Here's the email: Sorry for the delay in replying; I'm really behind on email because I've been talking about Chrome this past week. The short answer is that back in July I saw this post http://www.davidnaylor.co. Search Engines News SEO News Matt Cutts Matt Cutts Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:19:57 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10580 It's easy to find out what Google Chrome's user-agent is. Using the same trick as I did with the iPhone , I searched for phpinfo HTTP_USER_AGENT in Google Chrome. Click on one of the results and search for HTTP_USER_AGENT on the page. Here's the image that I see: My exact user-agent is Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.A.B.C Safari/525.13 So "0.2.149.27″ is the current version, Search Engines News SEO News Matt Cutts Matt Cutts Thu, 04 Sep 2008 06:37:41 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10563 Alright, I've got another conspiracy theory to dispel. After reading through the Chrome Terms of Service, some people are worried that Google is trying to assert rights on everything that you do on Chrome. From one example story by Marshall Kirkpatrick: The terms include a section giving Google "a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, Search Engines News SEO News Matt Cutts Matt Cutts Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:56:23 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10518 I spend a fair amount of my time debunking misconceptions about Google. So when I found out that Google Chrome was going to be released, I put on my thinking cap about what objections people would throw out about Google Chrome. Here are the questions that I came up with, along with my personal answers. I want to stress that this is my personal blog, so even though I believe all of this is accurate, these are not official answers. Search Engines News SEO News Matt Cutts Matt Cutts Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:32:23 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10514 For better or worse, my blog is popular with the Google conspiracy-theorist demographic. I knew that as soon as Google Chrome launched, some readers would ask tough questions about privacy and how/when Google Chrome communicates with google.com. So I decided to tackle this issue head-on. I talked to the Chrome team to find out if there's anything to worry about. The short answer is no. For the long answer, read on. Search Engines News SEO News Matt Cutts Matt Cutts Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:33:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10502 According to a press release this morning, Google will host a webcast press briefing and demo of Google Chrome at 11 a.m. Pacific time today. I think this link (Windows Media Player) or this link (Real Player) will get you there in case you want to watch. I plan to be in the room and I'll comment on tidbits that especially catch my ear. Search Engines News SEO News Matt Cutts Matt Cutts Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:43:15 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10486 Google just officially confirmed that it will release a new open-source web browser, called Google Chrome (that link should go live sometime tomorrow). I can't wait to talk more about Google Chrome, but I'll hold off until it officially launches. Once people can download Google Chrome, I plan to talk about my experiences using Google Chrome, to lay some truth on you about questions you might ask about Google Chrome, and to give some tips for power browsers. Search Engines News SEO News Matt Cutts Matt Cutts Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:00:15 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=9404 This summer several people in Google's quality group have pulled back the curtain on how people think about search quality at Google. We've had Udi Manber give an overview of search quality and the groups that work on it. Then my office-mate Amit Singhal discussed some of our principles of core ranking . Amit followed that with a post about how we understand pages, queries, Search Engines News SEO News Matt Cutts Matt Cutts Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:56:30 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=9076 Hey folks, I wanted to let you know that new toolbar PageRank values should become visible over the next few days. I'm expecting that also in the next few days that we'll be expiring some older penalties on websites. Search Engines News SEO News Matt Cutts Matt Cutts Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:40:54 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=9030 I was going to wait until part 2 was posted, but I'll point people to part 1 now. The video from the SMX Advanced keynote is now live, so you can watch the first 25 minutes of questions and answers. Read the intro here, or just watch the video: And Juliane Stiller from Google's German Webmaster blog stopped by the Googleplex for a more fun interview. Read the intro in English or German or just watch the video below: Thanks for setting this up, Juliane! Search Engines News SEO News Matt Cutts Matt Cutts Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:54:35 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=8865 Sometimes people think that the Google Toolbar led to Google indexing a page. Here's a recent such story , for example, which speculates how urls with the substring "mms2legacy" got indexed. Here's where I started to disagree: The reason for this [supposedly unlisted urls getting crawled -Matt], explained Ken Simpson, CEO of anti-spam company MailChannels, is that one's Google Toolbar may be configured to pass URLs that one visits to Google for indexing. Search Engines News SEO News Matt Cutts Matt Cutts Sat, 19 Jul 2008 07:41:49 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=8629 Yup, I'm about to do another blog post where someone says that a website is clean but it doesn't look like it to us. I did a very similar post in January 2007 , and in that post I said I've checked out a quite a few "we don't have any malware" reports at this point, and I've yet to see a false positive â€" the sites in question have each had some malware on them. Would you believe that a year and a half later, that's still true for me? Search Engines News SEO News Matt Cutts Matt Cutts Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:59:01 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=8376 I love that Google just open-sourced Protocol Buffers. Think of Protocol Buffers as a very compact way of encoding data in a binary format. A programmer can write a simple description of a protocol or structured data and Google's code will autogenerate a class in C++, Java, or Python to read, write, and parse the protocol. Given a protocol buffer, you can write it to disk, send it over the network wire, and do any number of interesting tricks. Search Engines News SEO News Matt Cutts Matt Cutts Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:44:07 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=8160 Today is July 1st, which is a special day because it marks the beginning of the second half of the year. Just in the last day or so there have been a couple pieces of good news: better indexing of Flash , and we re-wrote our "What is an SEO?" guide to improve the tone, then asked for more suggestions on how to improve it. July 1st is also a good time to sit down and ask the question "What do I want to accomplish during the rest of this year? Search Engines News SEO News Matt Cutts Matt Cutts Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:31:13 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=8137 If you haven't seen the official posts , Adobe has been working to make Flash more index-able by search engines. Google has recently rolled out better code for Flash, e.g. you're now more likely to see useful snippets on Flash pages in Google's search results. I'm a fan of this change, and I'm a fan of Adobe in general. They get a lot of credit in my book for opening up the specifications for PostScript , Adobe's font standards , and their Acrobat/PDF format . Search Engines News SEO News Matt Cutts Matt Cutts Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:24:33 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=8084 Jefferson Graham didn't just write an article of free SEO tips " he also brought his video camera along. The result is a five minute video interview with more easy, free search engine optimization tips. Again, this is targeted at beginner SEO and small business SEO instead of advanced marketers. You can watch the video below: Fun trivia: This video was taped in the lobby of building 43 on the Googleplex campus. Also, Search Engines News SEO News Matt Cutts Matt Cutts Mon, 30 Jun 2008 03:33:11 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=7805 Jefferson Graham of USA Today stopped by the Googleplex a little while ago and we talked about SEO tips for business owners that want to run their business, not live and breathe search 24 hours a day. The result is an article of search engine optimization (SEO) advice that you could hand to any friend that runs a mom/pop business who wants learn a little more about SEO. Experts won't be surprised, but Graham's article covers the basics for a general audience very well. Search Engines News SEO News Matt Cutts Matt Cutts Mon, 23 Jun 2008 05:45:36 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=7757 By the way, we had our second webmaster live chat yesterday. I think almost everyone had a good time. It was free for anyone to dial in, and hundreds of people showed up. Thanks to the Google presenters and everyone that asked questions or talked in the chat. I got a chance to answer lots of questions in the written Q&A, and then after the official presentations were over we did a "lightning round" and answered a bunch more questions via audio for 20-25 minutes. Search Engines News SEO News Matt Cutts Matt Cutts Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:45:36 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=7756 If you're a site owner, webmaster, SEO, or otherwise have an interest in website metrics, I think you're going to like Google Trends for Websites . It's almost as addictive to me as Google Maps is for, you know, normal people. You're probably familiar with regular Google Trends, which lets you see trends in how people search for difference phrases such as full moon or skiing vs. swimming . Here's the graph of how often people search for "full moon, Search Engines News SEO News Matt Cutts Matt Cutts Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:30:53 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=7644 We'll be doing a webmaster chat tomorrow at 2 p.m. Pacific time. You need to register in advance for the chat, which you can do with this link . Last quarter we did a webmaster chat and it was a ton of fun. I spent the entire time responding to people in the live chat. This time I plan to participate again, but I'll be answering questions in the Q&A section of the session. There will also be a presentation by John Mueller about personalization, Search Engines News SEO News Matt Cutts Matt Cutts Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:43:21 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=7583 At SMX a couple weeks ago Eric Enge and I did a 20-25 minute interview. The interview transcript is now out in case you want to read through it. We discuss some of the ways to get links that are likely to stand the test of time: Those links are typically given voluntarily. It is an editorial link by someone, and it's someone that's informed. They are not misinformed, they are not tricked; there is no bait and switch involved. Search Engines News SEO News Matt Cutts Matt Cutts Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:41:45 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=7532 Just a quick reminder that websites should check for XSS holes on their site, especially freeform text input such as search boxes. Even big sites can have these issues with XSS and escaping user input. If you've noticed that your rankings in Google seem to be affected, you might consider a few searches on your site to see if anyone has injected spammy or porn content on your site. If your domain was example.com, you might want to run a few queries such as [site:example. Search Engines News SEO News Matt Cutts Matt Cutts Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:46:26 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=7460 Sometimes at a conference people will ask me "Does it matter what extension I use for my pages? Does Google prefer .php over .asp, or .html over .htm?" And my answer is "We're happy to crawl all of these file extensions. It doesn't matter what you choose between any of those." Usually I also try to insert a reminder at the end of my reply such as "But there are some file extensions that are mostly binary data, such as .exe, Search Engines News SEO News Matt Cutts Matt Cutts Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:53:09 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=7402 Jeremy Zawodny is leaving Yahoo! . That's pretty huge news. Wihle Jeremy and I have playfully jousted in the past, I have nothing but respect for Jeremy " to the point where we joked for April Fool's Day a couple years ago about switching blogs . I've enjoyed being on search panels with him before, and he's been a fantastic communicator on Yahoo's behalf. I picked up several blogging tips from listening to him, Search Engines News SEO News Matt Cutts Matt Cutts Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:38:19 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=7309 Last week I was in Seattle for the SMX Advanced 2008 conference. I'll run down a few thoughts on the trip. What was good? It's always nice to visit Seattle. I had never been to Seattle until last year. Now I've been four times, and I've managed to get macaroni and cheese from West 5 for three of those visits. I really enjoy Seattle's vibe and visiting Google colleagues at the Kirkland-plex each time. SMX has a really friendly feel as well. Search Engines News SEO News Matt Cutts Matt Cutts Wed, 11 Jun 2008 06:04:54 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=7031 One of the wonderful things about a search conference like SMX Advanced is that it gives us a chance to finish a lot of things we'd been meaning to do. Google just added a bunch of nice documentation in various places. We even did it in official places " much better than doing it on my personal blog. Here's a few of the things that I know we've done recently: Robots.txt documentation One of the things that I like about robots. Search Engines News SEO News Matt Cutts Matt Cutts Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:51:12 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=6664 (I'm taking my wife somewhere really soon, so I'm just going to dash out a quick post.) There was a Techmeme discussion this weekend about whether Microsoft should chase Google in search or find their own "Big Hairy Audacious Goal." Into that discussion came a post by Ryan Stewart about being removed from Google's index. It turns out that Ryan's blog had been hacked, and Google does remove hacked sites from our index to protect our users. Search Engines News SEO News Matt Cutts Matt Cutts Mon, 26 May 2008 01:02:14 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=6648 I spend a lot of time in my browser. So much time, in fact, that I notice when I drop down to a command-line to type things. I wanted to look up a day later this year, so I typed "cal 2008″ into a Unix terminal window. I caught myself thinking, "Hey, why doesn't Google add a onebox shortcut for searches like 'cal' or 'cal 2008′?" On one hand, I could bug someone at Google with my request. To be honest, not many people would benefit from a feature like this. Search Engines News SEO News Matt Cutts Matt Cutts Sat, 24 May 2008 20:07:49 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=6636 xkcd recently posted a webcomic that is quickly becoming a classic cartoon: That comic sums up the internet in one sentence: the scrum of jostling opinions on the web and the optimism that truth can still win out. I was reminded of that comic when someone asked me about a particular way that someone recently tried to get links. Jonathan Crossfield wrote up a good background summary of the situation. Believe me, Search Engines News SEO News Matt Cutts Matt Cutts Fri, 23 May 2008 21:42:21 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=6480 Udi Manber talks about search at Google in a recent post on the Google blog . If you're interested in search or search engine optimization (SEO), the post is definitely worth a read. Udi discusses items from big (Google revamped how it computes PageRank in January) to small (in Hebrew, an acronym like IBM would be written as IB"M). But you know what my favorite tidbit is? Udi talks a little about how the Search Quality group is organized. Search Engines News SEO News Matt Cutts Matt Cutts Wed, 21 May 2008 06:35:57 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=6396 By the way, according to this page , it sounds like Google will webcast a press event starting quite soon. You can watch the Google Factory Tour live from 9:30 to noon Pacific time. I'll probably keep the webcast open in my browser to listen this morning. Search Engines News SEO News Matt Cutts Matt Cutts Mon, 19 May 2008 16:01:40 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=6364 I thought this was kinda funny. Someone thought that Google was taking stronger action on excessive reciprocal links. So did they ramp down their reciprocal linking? Nope. Instead, they put their offer into an image thinking that Google wouldn't notice: In case you can't read images, it says "Google doesn't like link exchanges anymore. Go Figure, So I put this info on an image so they can't read it. I setup these articles so they don't appear as link pages. Search Engines News SEO News Matt Cutts Matt Cutts Mon, 19 May 2008 07:18:16 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=6235 The other day I realized that I enter my haircut appointments into Google Calendar , so I can search for "haircut OR (the place I get my hair cut)" and see when I've gotten my hair cut: Then I was reading Google Apps Hacks and Hack 25 caught my eye: "Show the difference between two dates". A formula like "=INT(A2-A1)" will automatically compute how many days passed between the date listed in cell A1 and the date listed in cell A2. Search Engines News SEO News Matt Cutts Matt Cutts Thu, 15 May 2008 15:00:20 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=6049 If you didn't attend Web 2.0, you can watch my ten-minute keynote about "What Google Knows About Spam" (and several other keynotes) on blip.tv . I'll embed the keynote below as well. The only thing I don't like about conference speaking is preparing slides. When I use slides at a talk, I almost always make a custom presentation. That's why I prefer Q&A sessions; making slides is too much work. To make the process easier this time, Search Engines News SEO News Matt Cutts Matt Cutts Mon, 12 May 2008 05:16:40 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=5851 Google Custom Search Engine (CSE) just announced that they now power AdSense for Search . Another nice new change is that if you provide a Sitemap , Google will use that to improve the coverage of the custom search engine . Now let me nip one idea in the bud, because I can already feel a few people thinking it: this is not a backdoor way to get more pages in Google's index or to improve your search ranking. The official blog post mentions that. Search Engines News SEO News Matt Cutts Matt Cutts Wed, 07 May 2008 05:27:50 GMT