Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO

Gaping hole costume for Halloween 2009
Matt Cutts Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:49:19 -0000
This year for Halloween I tried to do a see-through hole in your body costume: It worked okay, but not great. The biggest problem was that I didn’t have a gadget lying around the house that could output live composite video. Both my normal video camera and my digital camera had exhausted batteries that wouldn’t recharge, [...]
Export your Google Docs data
Matt Cutts Mon, 26 Oct 2009 03:56:33 -0000
One of my favorite personal blog posts is about not trapping users’ data. In late 2006, Eric Schmidt declared “We would never trap user data.” Many of the major Google properties (search, Gmail, Calendar) make it trivial to export or download your data. In the past, Google Docs would let you export a single doc at [...]
One million video views!
Matt Cutts Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:54:35 -0000
This year we’ve been making and posting videos on an official webmaster video channel, and earlier today we hit our one millionth video view. Making these little movies has been a ton of fun and we’ve covered dozens of topics for site owners. We decided to celebrate in a couple ways. First, we added captions to [...]
Happy Diwali for 2009!
Matt Cutts Sat, 17 Oct 2009 15:35:21 -0000
Hey everybody, I just wanted to wish you a Happy Diwali! I hope that everyone has a wonderful festival of lights. It’s a good time today for introspection and reflection on the past year, and for hope for the year to come. Whether you celebrate with firecrackers, sweets, or appreciation for what you [...]
Learn more about robots.txt
Matt Cutts Wed, 07 Oct 2009 05:10:35 -0000
We made a video about how Google handles the robots.txt file. You can watch it if you want: This answers a couple questions such as: - Why is my url showing up in Google when I blocked it in robots.txt? Did you fetch that url? - How do I make that url disappear from Google? I hope the video [...]
Where have you been in the USA or world?
Matt Cutts Tue, 06 Oct 2009 04:01:13 -0000
Googler Douwe Osinga has a great personal project that demonstrates the Google Chart API. Just by clicking a few boxes, you can make an image to show the countries (or states in the USA) that you’ve been to. Here’s where I’ve been in the United States: Clearly I need to do a trip across the northern [...]

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