Matt Cutts
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Google
Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...
, specializing in search engine optimization
Search engine optimization
Search engine optimization is the process of improving the visibility of a website or a web page in search engines via the "natural" or un-paid search results...
issues.
In an interview with USA Today in June 2008, Cutts provided advice on how to optimize search results on Google.
Career
Cutts started his career in searchSearch engine
A search engine is an information retrieval system designed to help find information stored on a computer system. The search results are usually presented in a list and are commonly called hits. Search engines help to minimize the time required to find information and the amount of information...
when working on his Ph.D.
Ph.D.
A Ph.D. is a Doctor of Philosophy, an academic degree.Ph.D. may also refer to:* Ph.D. , a 1980s British group*Piled Higher and Deeper, a web comic strip*PhD: Phantasy Degree, a Korean comic series* PhD Docbook renderer, an XML renderer...
at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States...
. According to quotation in a personal interview with an operator of another website, Matt got his Bachelor's degree at the University of Kentucky
University of Kentucky
The University of Kentucky, also known as UK, is a public co-educational university and is one of the state's two land-grant universities, located in Lexington, Kentucky...
and Master's degree from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. In the interview he was quoted his field of study was computer graphics
Computer graphics
Computer graphics are graphics created using computers and, more generally, the representation and manipulation of image data by a computer with help from specialized software and hardware....
and movement tracking, then moved into the field of information retrieval
Information retrieval
Information retrieval is the area of study concerned with searching for documents, for information within documents, and for metadata about documents, as well as that of searching structured storage, relational databases, and the World Wide Web...
, and search engines after taking two required outside classes from the university's Information and Library Science
Library and information science
Library and information science is a merging of the two fields library science and information science...
department. He co-oped at United States Department of Defense
United States Department of Defense
The United States Department of Defense is the U.S...
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/debunking-google-in-bed-with-cia/#comment-91063. Cutts said he did not complete the Ph.D. before moving to Google, but did acquire a master's degree
Master's degree
A master's is an academic degree granted to individuals who have undergone study demonstrating a mastery or high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice...
in a response he provided on his own blog page.
Before working at the Search Quality group at Google, Cutts worked at the ads engineering group and SafeSearch, Google's family filter. There he earned the nickname "porn cookie guy" by giving his wife's homemade cookies to any Googler who provided an example of unwanted pornography in the search results.
Cutts is one of the co-inventors listed upon a Google patent
Patent
A patent is a form of intellectual property. It consists of a set of exclusive rights granted by a sovereign state to an inventor or their assignee for a limited period of time in exchange for the public disclosure of an invention....
related to search engines and web spam, which was the first to publicly propose using historical data to identify link spam.
In November 2010, Cutts started a contest challenging developers to make Microsoft Kinect more compatible with the Linux
Linux
Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...
operating system. At the time, Microsoft had stated that the use of Kinect with devices other than the Xbox 360
Xbox 360
The Xbox 360 is the second video game console produced by Microsoft and the successor to the Xbox. The Xbox 360 competes with Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles...
was not supported by them.
External links
- Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO – his personal blog
- 2009 BusinessWeek profile