What Matt Cutts Didn’t Say

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Sometimes you can get subtle clues about things by not only paying attention to what people say , but what they didn’t say. For example take this question from Meet The Crawlers at SES NYC

Audience Question: Do you only crawl links found on pages or does your algorithm use queries from the toolbar?
MSN: It may.
Google: If you’re trying to use the toolbar to get indexed, you should spend your time doing something else. Other ways to get into Google without inbound links: Site submit and Google Sitemap.

To be fair that’s really not a question he could answer, but he sidestepped that one like a pro, well done sir, well done indeed.

3 Responses to “What Matt Cutts Didn’t Say”

1. vex Says:
   March 3rd, 2006 at 4:34 pm

   i dont get it.

2. Cornwall Says:
   March 4th, 2006 at 10:12 am

   “i dont get it.”

   Made my morning

3. Irishwonder Says:
   March 4th, 2006 at 7:27 pm

   Yea I noticed that one too
   Indeed, he’s in this tricky damned-if-you-do-and-damned-if-you-don’t position with questions like this one…