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Matt Cutts

@mattcutts

3 years

New-ish blog post: You need to meet Lindsay, my force of a human:

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Matt Cutts

@mattcutts

5 years

Do any other Gmail users get the "add attachment" button and the "add link" button confused all the time?

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Matt Cutts

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6 years

I lost my wife and best friend this week:

Some terrible personal news

Cindy Cutts, my wife and best friend, passed away earlier this week. While I was traveling for work recently, Cindy went to visit her family in Omaha, Nebraska. On Sunday, while enjoying time with …

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Matt Cutts

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3 years

At the end of April, I'm stepping down as Administrator of the U.S. Digital Service. It's such an incredible group of people, and I'm grateful for my time working alongside them. More info:

The Next Chapter for USDS

Matt Cutts (he/him), Administrator of the U.S. Digital Service

medium.com

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Matt Cutts

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6 years

I just wanted to say thanks to everyone who has been sending good thoughts and support my way. I won't be able to say "thank you" to every person, but the good wishes have meant so much to me during a difficult time. Thank you.

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Matt Cutts

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4 years

In 2019 I met a new partner, and she's taught me so much about listening to my inner voice, being healthy, and getting offline to move my body. Thank you, @aranoff . I wish everyone a 2020 where you find people who make you happier, laugh more, and push you to be a better person.

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Matt Cutts

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6 years

Life is too short to iron clothes.

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Matt Cutts

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14 years

When you've got 5 minutes to fill, Twitter is a great way to fill 35 minutes.

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Matt Cutts

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7 years

I recently left Google to continue to serve at the US Digital Service. More details: Or:

United States Digital Service

The United States Digital Service is transforming how the federal government works for the American people. And we need you.

www.usds.gov

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Matt Cutts

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9 years

I've figured out why old men wear black socks with tennis shoes. It's because they don't care what you think.

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Matt Cutts

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5 years

All my phones and computers were misbehaving. I turned them all off and back on, and that fixed everything. As a computer scientist, I somehow find that *more* irritating.

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Matt Cutts

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5 years

My holiday gift to myself: doing the search label:inbox "unsubscribe" in Gmail and going to town.

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Matt Cutts

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7 years

Your rap name is MC + your mother's maiden name. Also the last four of your SSN. Go. Oh, and your first pet's name.

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Matt Cutts

@mattcutts

5 years

Me replying to emails when everyone is already out of the office for holidays.

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Matt Cutts

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5 years

Instead of resolutions, try 30 day challenges: - they're more achievable - base each challenge on how busy the month looks or what you need/want - you get to try 12 experiments instead of one! Here's the three minute video:

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5 years

In my @SedaliaDemocrat column this week, I urge readers to dump resolutions and instead try 30-day challenges, a concept I swiped from @mattcutts @TEDTalks

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Matt Cutts

@mattcutts

10 years

Google is rolling out our Panda 4.0 update starting today.

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Matt Cutts

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5 years

I dislike the word "users" because it doesn't capture the fullness of how people interact with a product or service. What word or description do you prefer?

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Matt Cutts

@mattcutts

3 years

Black lives matter.

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Matt Cutts

@mattcutts

6 years

Now that Google+ is going away, can someone reclaim the + operator for web search to require that term in the results?

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Matt Cutts

@mattcutts

5 years

[at the grocery store] me: I'll buy this pomegranite and learn how to get the seeds out [for the next week at home] pomegranate, mocking me: You don't know how to peel me. You don't even know how to spell me.

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Matt Cutts

@mattcutts

7 years

So it's not just software engineers?

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7 years

Another flaw in human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. —Kurt Vonnegut

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Matt Cutts

@mattcutts

8 years

For the next few months, I'm joining the US Digital Service family out in DC:

A brief update

Over the last couple years, I’ve seen more and more people in technology trying to make government work better. They’re idealists who are also making a large impact. These are people th…

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Matt Cutts

@mattcutts

6 years

Hey folks, Simone Giertz is amazing--the kind of person we need more of. She's facing a serious medical issue: If @SimoneGiertz inspires you like she inspires so many folks, consider supporting her on Patreon:

I have a brain tumor.

Curve ball from life! Everything still feels pretty surreal, but I'm getting through it. Queue jokes about shitty brain surgery robots.👇 places where I post...

www.youtube.com

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Matt Cutts

@mattcutts

10 years

If you see a scraper URL outranking the original source of content in Google, please tell us about it: http://t.co/WohXQmI45X

Scraper Report

Thank you for your interest in improving Google search! We collected enough answers and the form is not accepting answers any more.

docs.google.com

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Matt Cutts

@mattcutts

5 years

You don't have to send me your newsletter and ask me to rate my purchase. I wanted to order a belt, not begin a long-term relationship.

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Matt Cutts

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7 years

This is brilliant. Not just why the Guardian went HTTPS, but *how*. A must read for any web person still on the fence, or trying to do it.

Guardian Developers

@gdndevelopers

7 years

Pleased to announce that is now https everywhere! Read more about how we did it here: 🔒

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Matt Cutts

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8 years

New blog post: A brief update

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Matt Cutts

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6 years

This is a blog post about how we helped the VA save $100 million dollars. I've been waiting to tell this story. Please read it at and then consider coming to help the US Digital Service:

Saving VA $100 Million Dollars

By: Alan Ning

medium.com

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Matt Cutts

@mattcutts

6 years

A guy walked in front of me while I was biking tonight & we both took a spill. I'm okay and he's okay, but a reminder: Pedestrians: bike lanes are traffic lanes. Look for traffic before crossing. Bikers: wear a helmet. Use lights at night. Okay, it's off my chest. Thanks all.

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Matt Cutts

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6 years

Sending hugs out there to anyone who could use one.

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Matt Cutts

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5 years

You know you're an adult when you excited about a really good light bulb.

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Matt Cutts

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6 years

As an adult, you can choose to eat frosting for dinner. It's a thing you can do.

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Matt Cutts

@mattcutts

10 years

The TSA inspected my checked suitcase, saw my Boston Marathon jacket inside, and wrote "Congrats!" http://t.co/pgdDSp3Kbp

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Matt Cutts

@mattcutts

6 years

Hey smart security folks, we could use your eyes on to make sure it's as secure as possible for the American people.

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, our government single-sign-on platform, is now in our public bug bounty! Our rules are here: is used by ~7M users to log into Global Entry, USAJobs, and more. We welcome your security research and reports!

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Matt Cutts

@mattcutts

10 years

Now you can slice/dice Google image searches by usage rights under "Search tools. Thanks to @lessig for the request! http://t.co/8mQxxebTHJ

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Matt Cutts

@mattcutts

8 years

Google's world-class Site Reliability Engineering team wrote a new book: It's about managing production systems.

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Matt Cutts

@mattcutts

10 years

Google releases an open-source tool to help test and secure SSL: http://t.co/ljWSVpOkDo

Introducing nogotofail—a network traffic security testing tool

Google is committed to increasing the use of TLS/SSL in all applications and services. But “ HTTPS everywhere ” is not enough; it also needs...

security.googleblog.com

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Matt Cutts

@mattcutts

3 years

Now that I no longer have tons of meetings, it was nice to look through photos of the last two years together with @aranoff . My faves are the silly ones and dog pictures. I hope you get to take some time to reflect on the people and things that make you feel happy today.

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Matt Cutts

@mattcutts

6 years

I always tell myself at 10 or 10:30pm that I'm going to bed. Then I want to do one more thing and suddenly it's midnight. It was worth it tonight though.

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Matt Cutts

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6 years

One of life's great pleasures is a conversation with good friends.

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Matt Cutts

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9 years

Nine simple tips about money/investing that I learned the hard way:

Nine hard-won lessons about money and investing

Any time you talk about money, you risk sounding like a jerk. I’m going to take that risk in this post. I’ll start out by talking about a couple ways I shot myself in the foot financial…

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Matt Cutts

@mattcutts

11 years

A good list of SEO resources provided by Google: http://t.co/S8MDDayLT1 Star or bookmark this one for when friends ask.

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Matt Cutts

@mattcutts

5 years

This trip would be off to a better start if I'd gone to the right airport.

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Matt Cutts

@mattcutts

7 years

New blog post: Staying with the US Digital Service

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Matt Cutts

@mattcutts

6 years

I turned on the radio and heard @SimoneGiertz talking about the joy of building useless things: Now she's building a useful thing for 30 or 365 day challenges: light days up as you finish. Under three days left in her Kickstarter:

The Every Day Calendar

A personal gold star system for your habits

www.kickstarter.com

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Matt Cutts

@mattcutts

4 years

I did a TED talk about why technologists (designers, engineers, and product managers) should do a tour of public service. The talk is now live: Learn more at , or please share the talk. Thank you!

United States Digital Service

The United States Digital Service is transforming how the federal government works for the American people. And we need you.

www.usds.gov

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Matt Cutts

@mattcutts

8 years

Oh man. Looking through old stuff and found Google docs/papers I studied/annotated in '99 from before I even joined.

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Matt Cutts

@mattcutts

4 years

Thank you for coming to my TED talk:

What happens when a Silicon Valley technologist works for the government

What if the government ran more like Silicon Valley? Engineer Matt Cutts shares why he decided to leave Google (where he worked for nearly 17 years) for a career in the US government -- and makes the...

www.ted.com

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Matt Cutts

@mattcutts

8 years

It's been a long election season. I hope that we'll treat each other today the way that we'd like to be treated ourselves.

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Matt Cutts

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6 years

When I was at Google I called this the "evil unicorn problem" (because there's not much content for evil unicorns, but you can still search for that), but "keyword voids" is much more evocative. An important piece by @noUpside

The Complexity of Simply Searching For Medical Advice

How the anti-vaccine movement used an information void to inject itself into the top results.

www.wired.com

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Matt Cutts

@mattcutts

10 years

Googlebot has become much better at executing JavaScript. See some best practices here: http://t.co/ceebdW6jff

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Matt Cutts

@mattcutts

5 years

Every so often I have to eat foods well past their expiration date just to prove to myself that I'm stronger than the food poisoning.

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Matt Cutts

@mattcutts

8 years

. @matt_levine on Wells Fargo is delish: 1. You get what you measure. 2. The thing that you measure will be gamed.

Wells Fargo Opened a Couple Million Fake Accounts

You get what you measure, even if it's not what you wanted.

www.bloomberg.com

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Matt Cutts

@mattcutts

8 years

Trying Taco Bell's spicy cheese core burrito before getting on a plane, because I like to live on the edge.

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Matt Cutts

@mattcutts

6 years

I'm drinking chocolate milk because I'm adult and I do what I want. Later I'll eat Necco wafers.

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Matt Cutts

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5 years

On the bright side, if Google+ is gone, maybe the folks in Google search will reclaim the + operator:

Google Removes The + Search Command

Google has quietly removed one of the older search operators, the + search operator. Now if you try adding a + sign in your query, Google will ignore it.

searchengineland.com

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Matt Cutts

@mattcutts

8 years

I took a month off from news and social media. Coming back feels like:

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Matt Cutts

@mattcutts

12 years

Every night, millions of players sit down to play the addictive, massively multiplayer online game called "Email."

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Matt Cutts

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9 years

Great overview of the evolution of authentication in the browser: http://t.co/NZHKLCR0TL Great way to come up to speed on this topic.

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Matt Cutts

@mattcutts

8 years

Invites no longer needed for free SSL certificates: Another step toward encryption by default. ☑

Entering Public Beta

We’re happy to announce that Let’s Encrypt has entered Public Beta. Invitations are no longer needed in order to get free certificates from Let’s Encrypt. It’s time for the Web to take a big step...

letsencrypt.org

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Matt Cutts

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6 years

Just me in a crab (lobster?) costume:

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Matt Cutts

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12 years

This is a great SEO resource if you don't live and breathe SEO: http://t.co/RbSW9Agq

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Matt Cutts

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6 years

Resolutions suck! Try something new for 30 days instead and see whether it sticks:

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Matt Cutts

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6 years

If you build government tech, there's some serious wisdom in here: Especially about - avoiding big-bang launches - don't develop requirements and then throw them over a wall - don't launch, then shift to maintenance mode; keep systems evergreen

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Matt Cutts

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7 years

In case you missed it last night, some personal news about me leaving Google and taking on a new role at the @USDS :

Staying with the US Digital Service

A few months ago, I took a leave of absence from Google to do a stint with the US Digital Service. A lot of people know about the US Digital Service because they helped rescue the healthcare.gov we…

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Matt Cutts

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4 years

One of my 30-day challenges this month is to cut out added sugar. If you see me with a piece of candy, slap it out of my hand and shout "Matt, you promised!"

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Matt Cutts

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9 years

This is an unsolicited email. Should I reply with, Bing, Yahoo, Baidu, and Yandex? http://t.co/HY37jEFLI6

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Matt Cutts

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9 years

An immigrant's story: It's a really good (important) read.

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Matt Cutts

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6 years

two hours doing chores in the real world: well, everything looks clean and organized two hours doing chores on the computer: i'm just about ready to start the first item

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Matt Cutts

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11 years

This website will remove the background from images in real-time: http://t.co/9OXQSkPNy6 Very cool stuff.

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Matt Cutts

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9 years

Some great ideas for 30 day challenges. Found via http://t.co/J3cJqc5M8B on Product Hunt. http://t.co/XxzelkTyMV

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Matt Cutts

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4 years

Maybe try a 30 day challenge instead of New Year's resolutions? For December, my 30 day challenge was to avoid sugar. I wasn't perfect, but I'm pretty happy with how it went. For January, I'm going to stay off social media/Twitter as much as I can.

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Matt Cutts

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6 years

Just wanted to say thanks to the folks who contributed stories at . Reading stuff like has been really helpful over the last few months.

August 12 2018 | How Has Matt Cutts Helped You?

A story for Matt Cutts

www.mattcutts.org

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Matt Cutts

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5 years

About to do something stupid. In Austin Texas this time.

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Matt Cutts

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8 years

I've reached a point where many college kids call me sir. I have mixed feelings about this.

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8 years

Gmail added a small red icon to show if email was not encrypted. In 44 days, inbound mail encryption went up 25%:

More Encryption, More Notifications, More Email Security

Posted by Nicolas Lidzborski, Gmail Security Engineering Lead and Jonathan Pevarnek, Jigsaw Engineer Today, we’re announcing a variety of...

security.googleblog.com

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Matt Cutts

@mattcutts

7 years

A huge, great move. Google needs this public liaison role. It should help them listen better, too. Danny Sullivan is the perfect choice.

Search Engine Land

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Danny Sullivan joins Google, leaves advisor role at Third Door Media by @MichelleRobbins

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Matt Cutts

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8 years

What do you call this genre of art where you draw faces on things? And can someone do it for the SpaceX landing?

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Matt Cutts

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6 years

I'm going to be out in the Bay Area next week. Any reporters want to hear some stories about the work that the U.S. Digital Service is doing? We've got some great things to share. Reach out to usdspress @omb .eop.gov if you want to talk or meet!

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Matt Cutts

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14 years

Secret goo.gl easter egg: take a link like http://goo.gl/LFwS and add ".qr" to get a QR code! See http://goo.gl/LFwS.qr

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8 years

Frankly, the font choice is the most annoying.

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7 years

TensorFlow (Google's open source ML library) is a little over a year old, but has more stars on GitHub than Linux:

GitHub - tensorflow/tensorflow: An Open Source Machine Learning Framework for Everyone

An Open Source Machine Learning Framework for Everyone - tensorflow/tensorflow

github.com

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6 years

New blog post: Some terrible personal news

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6 years

Email is like the world's most boring sport.

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9 years

Why Google open sourcing TensorFlow for machine learning is such big news: It'll spark several new industries.

New community features for Google Chat and an update on Currents

Note: This blog post outlines upcoming changes to Google Currents for Workspace users. For information on the previous deprecation of Googl...

workspaceupdates.googleblog.com

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6 years

I need your advice. What power song gets you inspired and/or running faster? I'm running a marathon soon and need more + better music.

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5 years

The beginning of the year is a good time to think about your personal finances. Have you seen this post from a few years ago? Please enjoy hearing about my mistakes!

Nine hard-won lessons about money and investing

Any time you talk about money, you risk sounding like a jerk. I’m going to take that risk in this post. I’ll start out by talking about a couple ways I shot myself in the foot financial…

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8 years

1/ @SourceFed claims "Google has been actively altering search recommendations in favor of Hillary Clinton's campaign." That's simply false.

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9 years

BREAKING: Google open-sourcing TensorFlow, its machine learning system: This is huge.

TensorFlow: smarter machine learning, for everyone

We’ve built an entirely new machine learning system, which we call “TensorFlow.”

blog.google

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13 years

A Googler accidentally did an internal G+ post externally. It's out there now, so you might as well check it out: http://t.co/8ehw9Ue0

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7 years

@steveplunkett @jzawodn @ValueActiveGmbH At my funeral, I expect a fight to break out over subdomains vs. folders. I'll be a little disappointed if it doesn't.

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4 years

This site helps match suppliers of masks and personal protective equipment (PPE) with people who need it: Great to see this work by the civic tech community.

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8 years

This is worth your time:

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5 years

About to do something dumb again. In Baltimore this time.

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10 years

is a pretty cool site to make GIFs out of snippets of YouTube videos.

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6 years

Tweeting this murder bear gif so I can find it in case I ever need it.

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6 years

Single space after the period. Don't @ me.

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7 years

This is worth your time:

Seven Days of Heroin

The Enquirer sent 60 journalists to cover an ordinary week in this extraordinary time. This is what an epidemic looks like.

www.cincinnati.com

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4 years

We could really use 1-2 amazing content strategists at the U.S. Digital Service right now. If you know that person (or are that person!), please get them to apply: More info on what to expect:

What happens when a Silicon Valley technologist works for the government

What if the government ran more like Silicon Valley? Engineer Matt Cutts shares why he decided to leave Google (where he worked for nearly 17 years) for a career in the US government -- and makes the...

www.ted.com

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6 years

Nailed it..

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9 years

Cleaning out piles of paper and found my first C program. #helloworld http://t.co/IZXGqf40gC

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