There's no reason to believe Cutts would have any personal knowledge Cutts was the head of the Web Spam team at the time. That team is responsible for penalti

There's no reason to believe Cutts would have any personal knowledge Cutts was the head of the Web Spam team at the time. That team is responsible for penalties. He and I had an exchange here years ago. The text of his comment implies that he looked up penalties, so he had knowledge: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5426209 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5426209 This seems like a conduct violation on here or any reasonable discussion site. If that’s the case, I’m happy to discuss it with dang or another admin.