Cool site.

Thanks for posting so frequently lately. I hope you enjoy our feedback to your posts. I’d like to think that is what keeps you engaged . I Hope you have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Failing to disclose that you’ve received financial compensation for endorsing a product is not an unjust act. You’re not selling the product, and therefore it is up to the readers to decide whether or not to believe you. It’d be nice if you chose to disclose it, and I’d obviously prefer it — but no one, especially not the state, has the right to force you to disclose it.

It’s kind of like if you get a random phone call from someone who says that he knows who will win tomorrows football game. It’s up to you as to whether or not to believe him. If you choose to believe him, and bet some money and lose… well, that’s on you. Sure, the guy was a jerk, an idiot… but you chose to believe him.

If a company misrepresents a product in order to get a sale, then *this* is an unjust act, and therefore you are entitled to financial restitution from the company.

Interesting, too, that when you pay the fine, the state gets the money, isn’t it?

I think your policy misses the point somewhat. What you’ve written is great, but I don’t think it actually covers the issue (for your blog), which is, as I see it:

Does Matt Cutts write about products because he wants to, or because he’s asked to (Whether indirectly because of his employment by Google or by A.N.Other company who may well ask you to write about their product even if they don’t give you anything of value).

For Google products, while your policy makes it clear that you receive income from Google, but it’s not clear whether that relationship has any bearing on what you post about, or the opinions posted on your blog. (I think since you’ve declared your salary/stock from Google we can all take a guess at the answer – but this is about clarity right?)

For non-Google products while you’ve clarified you don’t receive any benefit for writing about them – it’s still not clear that if you wrote about product X it would be without influence (Maybe the CEO of the company is one of your high-school friends for example)

I think a simple statement such as:

“This blog represents the personal opinion of Matt Cutts and I always give my honest opinions, findings, beliefs, or experiences on topics or products.”

or an alternative, if the above isn’t 100% true (and by the way, for anyone who has a blog that is even vaguely related or includes posts about their employer I’d expect this to be the case)

I should note that, as others have said, I respect your professional, and personal integrity greatly, and I’m pretty confident that I know where you stand, but I do think the policy as-is doesn’t cover this important point.

Well, this is the story:

I read online about the Next generation TLD’s and thought it would be best to get .xyz domain (similar to .COM, .NET..)

It was late evening and found a website http://www.nextgentlds.com and I got a mail from cs@mabuhayhosting.com – that they are about to register that top TLD – and they belong to the Approved and Accredited by the Internet Names Authorization & Information Center (INAIC) – http://inaic.org

Just minutes (just minutes) after paying online I felt so stupid that there was no contact numbers from them and called Chase – they mentioned they took care of it – finally to find today that the money $1026.78 is gone. I am filing for a dispute and sent mail to both Mabuhay, and the money was taken by ZYZTM Research Division Europe #10 B.V. through RBS World pay.

Do you have any idea on these guys? Have you heard about these scam? I have Norton anti-virus installed – so when searching google – it always mention which sites are harmful – though I am at fault in this incident – I wish Google could do something to track these guys and warn or better yet just not to index them.

I am following some legal actions and filing complaints to International crime websites. Hope something happens.

Seems you give stuff away that companies give you…if apple sends you a macbook remember me .