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		<title>By: Steve Constable</title>
		<link>http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/a-peek-behind-the-curtain-at-google/#comment-246066</link>
		<dc:creator>Steve Constable</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 19:35:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I would have liked more info on how to get a good page listing but I know that isn&#039;t happening. However, I agree with other posters. Google should at least tell people what not to do. Do anything you like - just don&#039;t do this. People should be forewarned a little.

Of course common sense would say just play it cool. Make a small splash but don&#039;t hit the water too hard. That kind of thing. When I do SEO work for a client one of my roles is that of therapist. I tell them they need to relax and lower impossible expectations. What else can I do? No one here has a magic wand. (I sure don&#039;t.)]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I would have liked more info on how to get a good page listing but I know that isn&#8217;t happening. However, I agree with other posters. Google should at least tell people what not to do. Do anything you like &#8211; just don&#8217;t do this. People should be forewarned a little.</p>
<p>Of course common sense would say just play it cool. Make a small splash but don&#8217;t hit the water too hard. That kind of thing. When I do SEO work for a client one of my roles is that of therapist. I tell them they need to relax and lower impossible expectations. What else can I do? No one here has a magic wand. (I sure don&#8217;t.)</p>
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		<title>By: Aage</title>
		<link>http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/a-peek-behind-the-curtain-at-google/#comment-128651</link>
		<dc:creator>Aage</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 13:52:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi

I also enjoyed reading the post. I can certainly understand the curiosity that people display regarding Google&#039;s algorithms. But I also understand the need for secrecy, which as a user I care for the most. As a newbie web entrepreneur I have first hand experience with the difficulties involving getting visibility on the Internet and as the number of websites grows the more difficult this becomes. Google&#039;s secrecy is an absolute necessity in fighting abuse attempts by cluttering the Internet with useless content in order to draw traffic for the sole purpose of having visitors clicking on Google&#039;s own ads.
As an average surfer who searches for relevant information I am pleased though with Google&#039;s concept of &quot;relevancy&quot; (at least as well as I understand it). I believe it helps me find what I am looking for more quickly in stead of having to go through too many irrelevant search results caused by auto-generated-content-websites. Then again, the code in such programs may actually get so intelligent eventually, that those site will provide what I was looking for - who knows.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi</p>
<p>I also enjoyed reading the post. I can certainly understand the curiosity that people display regarding Google&#8217;s algorithms. But I also understand the need for secrecy, which as a user I care for the most. As a newbie web entrepreneur I have first hand experience with the difficulties involving getting visibility on the Internet and as the number of websites grows the more difficult this becomes. Google&#8217;s secrecy is an absolute necessity in fighting abuse attempts by cluttering the Internet with useless content in order to draw traffic for the sole purpose of having visitors clicking on Google&#8217;s own ads.<br />
As an average surfer who searches for relevant information I am pleased though with Google&#8217;s concept of &#8220;relevancy&#8221; (at least as well as I understand it). I believe it helps me find what I am looking for more quickly in stead of having to go through too many irrelevant search results caused by auto-generated-content-websites. Then again, the code in such programs may actually get so intelligent eventually, that those site will provide what I was looking for &#8211; who knows.</p>
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		<title>By: Marlies</title>
		<link>http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/a-peek-behind-the-curtain-at-google/#comment-128100</link>
		<dc:creator>Marlies</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 01:03:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi Matt,
I don&#039;t know where to find an answer for my quandary. My website: watercolorart.com has disappeared, it doesn&#039;t even show up in a search for the domain name. This is a site that had a #1 ranking for my search words (watercolor paintings, watercolors etc) since its inception ( 1998) until about 3 weeks ago. I don&#039;t know why I&#039;ve disappeared and why sites without relevance to the key words have now moved to the top, one site doesn&#039;t even have any content and is merely a placeholder. How have I offended the Google Gods? 

Apologies if this is not the correct forum to post, however I&#039;m at a loss as to where to find help.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Matt,<br />
I don&#8217;t know where to find an answer for my quandary. My website: watercolorart.com has disappeared, it doesn&#8217;t even show up in a search for the domain name. This is a site that had a #1 ranking for my search words (watercolor paintings, watercolors etc) since its inception ( 1998) until about 3 weeks ago. I don&#8217;t know why I&#8217;ve disappeared and why sites without relevance to the key words have now moved to the top, one site doesn&#8217;t even have any content and is merely a placeholder. How have I offended the Google Gods? </p>
<p>Apologies if this is not the correct forum to post, however I&#8217;m at a loss as to where to find help.</p>
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		<title>By: Peter (IMC)</title>
		<link>http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/a-peek-behind-the-curtain-at-google/#comment-127913</link>
		<dc:creator>Peter (IMC)</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 04:36:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&lt;blockquote&gt;Ooh goody, I hit a raw nerve with Matt’s question stalker (harrith) and his lackey (hmmm). I’m now happy and have a meaningful life &lt;/blockquote&gt;

That that makes you happy was already known. Kind of funny that one of the Matt Cutts Blog Antispam Spammers is accusing somebody of being a stalker.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Ooh goody, I hit a raw nerve with Matt’s question stalker (harrith) and his lackey (hmmm). I’m now happy and have a meaningful life </p></blockquote>
<p>That that makes you happy was already known. Kind of funny that one of the Matt Cutts Blog Antispam Spammers is accusing somebody of being a stalker.</p>
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		<title>By: Peter (IMC)</title>
		<link>http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/a-peek-behind-the-curtain-at-google/#comment-127911</link>
		<dc:creator>Peter (IMC)</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 04:24:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You could of course have put the &quot;Search Quality&quot; box in the center of the cloud and since there are many other groups, make &quot;(other groups)&quot; look bigger than the &quot;webspam&quot; box.. ;)]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You could of course have put the &#8220;Search Quality&#8221; box in the center of the cloud and since there are many other groups, make &#8220;(other groups)&#8221; look bigger than the &#8220;webspam&#8221; box.. <img src='http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Dave (Original)</title>
		<link>http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/a-peek-behind-the-curtain-at-google/#comment-127678</link>
		<dc:creator>Dave (Original)</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2008 05:52:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ooh goody, I hit a raw nerve with Matt&#039;s question stalker (harrith) and his lackey (hmmm). I&#039;m now happy and have a meaningful life :)]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ooh goody, I hit a raw nerve with Matt&#8217;s question stalker (harrith) and his lackey (hmmm). I&#8217;m now happy and have a meaningful life <img src='http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: mels</title>
		<link>http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/a-peek-behind-the-curtain-at-google/#comment-127663</link>
		<dc:creator>mels</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 23:54:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks for the heads up, Matt. It&#039;s always interesting to learn how people work together in such a big company. I home go read more about &quot;webspam&quot; too: it is barely mentionned in that post :(]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for the heads up, Matt. It&#8217;s always interesting to learn how people work together in such a big company. I home go read more about &#8220;webspam&#8221; too: it is barely mentionned in that post <img src='http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif' alt=':(' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Emirhan</title>
		<link>http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/a-peek-behind-the-curtain-at-google/#comment-127631</link>
		<dc:creator>Emirhan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 17:40:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks for a great article. I think we are all interested to know what goes on behind the scenes at Google, and it&#039;s not often we get a chance to find out.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for a great article. I think we are all interested to know what goes on behind the scenes at Google, and it&#8217;s not often we get a chance to find out.</p>
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		<title>By: Doug Heil</title>
		<link>http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/a-peek-behind-the-curtain-at-google/#comment-127627</link>
		<dc:creator>Doug Heil</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 14:04:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The search quality team and the webspam team working together, etc.

Do you think Google now has new thing to work on? The latest thang that the SEO industry seems to think is perfectly dandy is the idea of publishing false and fake headlines and content in order to achieve maximum incoming links from blogs and news sites.

This certainly goes hand in hand with blackhats and how the SEO industry protects them and praises them. I guess I&#039;m not surprised that a SEO is now praised for writing bogus and fake content, and did so on purpose in order to gain incoming links.

Maybe it&#039;s now time for search quality to discount blog links, etc now? You cannot manually review content to make sure it&#039;s not fake, so simply stop rewarding blogs who partner up with each other to spread deliberate lies.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The search quality team and the webspam team working together, etc.</p>
<p>Do you think Google now has new thing to work on? The latest thang that the SEO industry seems to think is perfectly dandy is the idea of publishing false and fake headlines and content in order to achieve maximum incoming links from blogs and news sites.</p>
<p>This certainly goes hand in hand with blackhats and how the SEO industry protects them and praises them. I guess I&#8217;m not surprised that a SEO is now praised for writing bogus and fake content, and did so on purpose in order to gain incoming links.</p>
<p>Maybe it&#8217;s now time for search quality to discount blog links, etc now? You cannot manually review content to make sure it&#8217;s not fake, so simply stop rewarding blogs who partner up with each other to spread deliberate lies.</p>
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		<title>By: Hmmm</title>
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		<dc:creator>Hmmm</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 13:27:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[@ Harith:   LOL!!!!   

I&#039;m giving that an A-MEN! too.  :-)  Such a miserable sourpuss all the time...  Brother needs to find a girlfriend, asap.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@ Harith:   LOL!!!!   </p>
<p>I&#8217;m giving that an A-MEN! too.  <img src='http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' />   Such a miserable sourpuss all the time&#8230;  Brother needs to find a girlfriend, asap.</p>
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