20 Facts About Matt Cutts

Matthew Cutts was born on 1972 or 1973 and is an American software engineer.

Matt Cutts was first appointed as acting administrator, to later be confirmed as full administrator in October 2018.

Matt Cutts previously worked with Google as part of the search quality team on search engine optimization issues.

Matt Cutts is the former head of the web spam team at Google.

Matt Cutts completed his high school career in Morehead, Kentucky at Rowan County Senior High School.

Matt Cutts received a bachelor's degree in computer science and mathematics from the University of Kentucky in 1995.

Matt Cutts went on to receive a Master of Science degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1998.

Matt Cutts started his career in search when working on his Ph.

In January 2000, Matt Cutts joined Google as a software engineer.

At 2007 PubCon, Matt Cutts stated that his field of study was computer science; he then moved into the field of information retrieval and search engines after taking two outside classes from the university's Information and Library Science department.

Matt Cutts is one of the co-inventors listed upon a Google patent related to search engines and web spam.

In 2006, The Wall Street Journal said "Matt Cutts is to search results what Alan Greenspan was to interest rates".

In November 2010, Matt Cutts started a contest challenging developers to make Microsoft Kinect more compatible with the Linux operating system.

Matt Cutts has given advice and made statements on help related to the use of the Google search engine and related issues.

In January 2012, on the news that Google had violated its own quality guidelines, Matt Cutts defended the downgraded PageRank of the Google Chrome homepage results, noting that it was not given special dispensation.

In July 2014, Matt Cutts stated that he was going to take a few months of leave to spend more time with his family and try new things, including a half ironman race.

Fifteen years later, Matt Cutts made the decision to do so.

In January 2017, Matt Cutts announced that he would be leaving Google to join the US Digital Service.

Matt Cutts noted that he handed in his notice to Google on December 31,2016.

Matt Cutts was originally going to spend his leave at the USDS for three months which then turned into six months.