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Matt Cutts

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Who is Matt Cutts?

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Matt Cutts was previously Head of Google’s Webspam Team.

Matt joined Google in January 2000, after a Master of Science degree studying computer science and attaining a Ph.D from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Before working at the Search Quality team at Google Matt made various contributions to Google’s systems, including the SafeSearch filter.

Matt officially resigned from Google on December 31st, 2016.

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