Comments on: Matt Cutts Keeps Google Honest

By: noor

noor — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 07:19:22 +0000

Hi,
Good work. Thanks for sharing.

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By: jeremy

jeremy — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:03:33 +0000

Yes, he does deserve credit.

But how often is someone on google.com (ie google.us) searching for a page that is located on google.jp? Who actually searches for a search engine?

So I agree; it’s a nice symbolic move that took guts. But ultimately will probably have very little real effect on google.jp… much less effect than if it were some shoe maker or vacuum sales company that took the 4-point pagerank hit.

By: Daniel Tunkelang

Daniel Tunkelang — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:16:49 +0000

I give him credit for slapping down his own employer. It may be in Google’s self-interest as a corporation, but it also takes some guts for a employee–who is human being, not a corporation–to do the right thing in a situation like this.

By: Daniel Lemire

Daniel Lemire — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:13:03 +0000

Is this “integrity” or just protecting Google’s value?

If Google’s search results start to go downhill, I, for one, will be quick to move to a new search engine. I am sure others would move too.

So, they can’t afford to produce noticeably worse search results.