Matt Cutts Fought With Sergey Brin & Larry Page On That Google Search Can Be Spammed

Some of you may know that in the early days of Google, Google's co-founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page would say Google Search was immune to search spam. Matt Cutts, the former Google search spam lead, said recently on Reddit that he actually had to fight with the co-founders to prove that Google was indeed spammable.

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Gary Illyes Eating Japanese Dishes

Gary Illyes Eating Japanese Food

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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 23, 2022

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.

Can you believe it, many SEOs are still doing guest posts for links. Google's John Mueller spoke about subdomains, yes...

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Google Discover Changes "More Recommendations" Label To "More Products" Signaling Deeper Push Into Shopping And E-commerce

In March, I wrote a post about "More recommendations" being surfaced in Google Discover. The call to action would show up after researching products in Google Search and would lead to a "task dashboard" containing a boatload of content that helps users continue researching products (including articles, video, product comparison functionality, and more).

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Poll: Many SEOs Still Guest Post For SEO

A poll by Marie Haynes shows that many SEOs are still doing guest posting for SEO purposes. The poll had over 400 responses and only 44% of those who responded said they do not use guest posting for SEO reasons. 32% said they do and 12% said they do on occasion.

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Google Buttons Game Cake

Google Button Game Cake

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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 21, 2022

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Google "Why To Watch" Carousel For Google Movie Reviews

Google seems to have added a new carousel to the movie search results named "why to watch." This carousel contains movie critique reviews, which is not new, but the user interface is new.

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Google Army Veteran

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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 18, 2022

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.

Google launched a ton of new features across search, maps...

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The New Google Viger Montreal Office

Google Viger Montreal Office

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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 16, 2022

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Have you ever heard of the Google Coati update algorithm...

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Google: We Pick Up On URL Patterns That Don't Work But Should Slow Crawling Those URLs

Google's John Mueller confirmed that GoogleBot will crawl and pick up on URL patterns that simply do not work on your site. I mean, we have all seen this happen time and time again with sites we manage. But John added that the crawling should slow over time as Google picks up on this.

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Google NYC Diwali Celebration

Google Diwali Celebration

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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 14, 2022

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Google Business Reviews Going Missing After Suggested Edits (Scary Bug)

Google Business Profiles and business listings reviews are going missing, dropping out completely, again, but this time it seems to be related to automated suggested edits occurring on some business profiles.

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Google Local Reviews Shows Number Of Reviews From Reviewer By Category

Last week I reported on how Google Local reviews can display how many reviews a specific reviewer left in a specific city. Well, Google is also doing this by category, how many reviews a specific reviewer left for the business category type.

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Google's Greatest Talent Show Dancer

Google's Greatest Talent Show Dancer

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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 11, 2022

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