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Cutts Nips Net Neutrality Conspiracy Theory

Be careful with Google conspiracy accusations; Matt Cutts might make an example of you. After being accused of blocking anti-Net Neutrality pages on the Progress and Freedom Foundation site, Cutts gloats over data to the contrary on his blog. Brett Glass, via Dan Farber's Interesting People mailing list, discovered only pages on PFF.org's website pertaining to Network Neutrality were flagged by Google as hosting malware. Once flagged, Google gandalfs the old "you shall not pass" command, barring searchers from accessing the infected page via search results.

Paid Link Reporting Spurs Furious Debate

Matt Cutts posted a note about Google being in position to handle paid link report submissions from the Internet community; Michael Gray complained about the fairness of the request.

Got Text Input? Better Check For Holes

Google's noteworthy antispam engineer Matt Cutts discussed the issue of cross-site scripting (XSS) flaws, as vulnerable sites have infected pages popping up in the dominant search engine's results pages.

SMX: You And A With Matt Cutts

In the session "You and A with Matt Cutts," Danny Sullivan and Matt started off by talking about the Lyndon Antcliff story involving a 13 year-old boy who stole his dad's credit card to buy hookers. The story was widely reported and later revealed to be a hoax that was used as link bait.(Coverage of the SMX Advanced Conference continues at WebProNews Videos. Keep an eye on WebProNews for more notes and videos from the event this week.)

Selling Out Our Control Of The Internet

I apologize for the liberal quoting of Matt Cutts comments over on sphinn, but I think it’s important to understand the ramifications of something like this:

Cutts: Money The Root Of Spam

The profit motive drives spammers to do anything they can to get their offers in front of an audience, because somewhere out there, someone probably will buy into their scams.

11 Tips For Recognizing A Bad SEO Firm

There are lots of different people out there calling themselves SEOs. Some of them are actually really good. But, for today, let’s take a look at 11 sure fire signs that your dealing with a bad one:

Matt Cutts Suggests Summer Of Code Projects

There's still some time before any deadlines relating to the 2008 Google Summer of Code pass.  So, in the event you're looking for ideas, Matt Cutts has suggested 21 possible projects.

Matt Cutts Proposes Fresh Gmail Feature

Matt Cutts's wishes are not Google's commands.  Just the same, the guy is undeniably influential, and his latest idea - giving Gmail the ability to send things at a predetermined time or date - seems to have gotten a good response from would-be users.

Google Loose with Editorially Approved Links

In an earlier post I chastised Google for giving straight links to partners, However now I’ve found a whole bunch more...