Matt Cutts
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Cutts in 2008
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Matthew Cutts 1972/1973 (age 44–45) |
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| Alma mater |
University of Kentucky (BS '95) UNC-Chapel Hill (MS '98) |
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| Occupation | Programmer | ||
| Known for | SafeSearch, Google's family filter, Webspam Team | ||
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Matthew "Matt" Cutts (born 1972 or 1973) is an American software engineer. He is the former head of the web spam team at Google, but is now working for the United States Digital Service as the director of engineering. On January 20, 2017, he became the acting administrator of the USDS. Cutts had previously worked with Google as part of the search quality team on search engine optimization issues.
Cutts completed his high school career in Morehead, Kentucky at Rowan County Senior High School. He received a bachelor's degree in computer science and mathematics from the University of Kentucky in 1995. He went on to receive a Master of Science degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1998.
Cutts started his career in search when working on his Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In January 2000, Cutts joined Google as a software engineer. At 2007 PubCon, 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. Before working at the Search Quality group at Google, Cutts worked at the ads engineering group and SafeSearch, Google's family filter, which he designed. There, he earned the nickname "porn cookie guy" by giving his wife's homemade cookies to any Googler who provided an example of unwanted pornography in the search results.
Cutts is one of the co-inventors listed upon a Google patent related to search engines and web spam.
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