Jan 16th, 2007
Matt Cutts Quits Google?
Rumor has it that Matt Cutts is going to leave Google in the near future. The rumor stems from a pretty legitimate source however: Cutts himself. He recently wrote in his blog, “I love working at Google, but at some point my wife is going to wake up and smell the coffee. She’ll say ‘Hey, we agreed we’d try this Google thing for four or five years, and then I’d get to pick what to do next. It’s been like eight years now! When do we move on to our next adventure?’”
I don’t actually see him leaving yet, and I think the rumor is a little early, but when he leaves, he’s going to create some big waves in the seo world. He has quite a following and has helped to brand Google as an ethical and honest company.
Yeah, if google’s smart (and in case you’ve missed it, they are smart), they’ll keep him on as a part-time blogger/Google evangelist regardless of where his wife drags him. He’s got such a following among SEOs, that nobody else has even touched–even though there are plenty of other Googlers that blog and go to conferences… but no one has developed the type of cult following that Matt has.