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Matt Cutts Talks Caffeine and Site Speed
Matt Cutts discussed two key ingredients of where Google is headed in an interview with WPN out in Vegas. The Google software engineer said the first of these ingredients is of course Google’s much discussed Algorithm update (Caffeine), which was recently found to begin rolling out soon.
Matt Cutts Explains Caffeine Update
Google announced yesterday that it has been working on a project called “Caffeine” that will re-write the architecture for Google’s Web search. As Matt Cutts shares exclusively with WebProNews, Caffeine is comparable to the “Big Daddy Update” back in 2005, which consisted of changes to the way Google crawls and indexes websites.
Warning: Don’t Hack Websites for Links
Can you believe it? Matt Cutts and Michael Gray, otherwise known as Graywolf, actually agree on something! The two have had a long history of disagreeing on the issue of paid links, but they have come together in a joint effort with a word of caution about hacking websites for links.
Google Friend Connect API
Once again, Matt Cutts broke Google news for us. He introduced Google Friend Connect API at PubCon South in Austin, Texas and WebProNews has exclusive details in the above video.
WPN Exclusive: Matt Cutts Apologizes on Behalf of Google’s Penalty against Google Japan
Last week, Google was forced to swallow some pride as it issued a penalty against Google Japan. We all know that Google is strongly against paid links, so it was surprising when Google Japan was recently found out for buying blog posts as part of a promotional campaign for a new service. Matt Cutts expresses Google’s deep remorse and apologizes on Google’s behalf in this video.
Breaking News: Matt Cutts Explains “Canonical Tag” from Google, Yahoo, Microsoft
Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft announced today a joint effort to help reduce duplicate content. The three major search engines came together to allow users to point out their preferred version of a url. As Matt Cutts explains in this video, this format offers users more control. Duplicate content has been a challenging issue for a long time. Websites containing a lot of content such as a retail site could end up with several urls for each page making it difficult for search engines to crawl.
Coming Up at SMX West 2009
The WebProNews video crew is packing up and heading to California! Not for an extended stay, but just long enough to get all the coverage we can of SMX West and make our viewers happy. The event is taking place February 10-12, in Santa Clara. We have an incredible line-up of interviews to watch out for. We will be bringing you exclusive coverage of Vint Cerf’s keynote conversation as well as an exclusive interview with the with the man known as the “father of the Internet.”
Matt Cutts on Changes at Google
We previously brought you a video report in which Bruce Clay made a claim that “ranking is dead.” In the above WPN video, Matt Cutts of Google responds to that assertion. Matt does not completely agree with Bruce that “ranking is dead” but does announce that it is not as important as it once was.
SES: Fixing 404 Pages With Matt Cutts
As Matt Cutts says, “404 pages typically suck.” Luckily, Google’s got a new 404 widget and Cutts discusses it in this interview with Mike McDonald. The Google engineer also talks about some things of interest like Android and cloud computing.
Google Launches NoFollow Google Help Center
We have some breaking news to tell you! We’ve reported on nofollow on many occasions, but we are the first to tell you that Google has just launched NoFollow Google Help Center. Matt Cutts revealed this news in an interview with Mike McDonald at SMX Advanced in Seattle. Blogger Liana “Li” Evans called Google out [...]