MattCutts

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   by MattCutts 17y ago

   Hey Tim, your blog post mentioned the [recency microsoft word misspelled] query. The way I normally check if a word is valid is just do a query for the word, e.g. [recency]. In the top right we show the phrase "Results 1 - 10 of about 2,910
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   by MattCutts 17y ago

   I think the the results quality on Google has been the same or better over the last few months; one thing we have been looking at is helping less savvy users who might mistype a word or type extra words that they don't really need in their
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   by MattCutts 17y ago

   Or the dangers of companies not allowing you to easily export/backup your data.
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   by MattCutts 17y ago

   "I doubt that anyone who is using Google for search purposes will need to contact customer support." You'd be surprised. There's still some people who think that when they type in a query, people at Google manually decide which results to s
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   by MattCutts 17y ago

   barrkel, I can speak to some of the thinking on the search result ranking side. I believe the feeling has been that asking people to pay for support creates worse incentives, because it turns something that people shouldn't have to do (cont
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   by MattCutts 17y ago

   I'm glad that the ads are running again. Reading through your blog post, it seems entirely possible that the @welcome variable not being defined could cause an issue with conversion tracking (although I don't have any first-hand knowledge).
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   by MattCutts 17y ago

   calambrac, I personally agree with you about the wording/tone of the current letter. I would like them to take a look at changing that, although no one will ever be delighted to get that letter.
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   by MattCutts 17y ago

   I like the way you think! I tweeted to you to prove this account is really me: http://twitter.com/mattcutts/status/3603379916
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   by MattCutts 17y ago

   There is a support channel for appeals, and it sounds like hizook.com submitted an appeal via that channel earlier this week. My guess is that the Google team is already looking into it; I just wanted to let people know that I'd ask the rel
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    by MattCutts 17y ago

    I'm happy to ask the right team at Google about this and point them to the post on hizook.com.