Matt Cutts works for the Search Quality group in Google, specializing in search engine optimization issues.[1] In an interview with USA Today in June 2008, Cutts provided advice on how to optimize search results on Google.[2]
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Cutts started his career in search when working on his Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. According to quotation in a personal interview with an operator of another website, Matt got his Bachelor's degree at the University of Kentucky and Master's degree from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. In the interview he was quoted his field of study was computer graphics and movement tracking, then moved into the field of information retrieval, and search engines[3] after taking two required outside classes from the university's Information and Library Science department.[3]
Before working at the Search Quality group at Google, Cutts worked at the ads engineering group and SafeSearch, Google's family filter. 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.[4]
Cutts is one of the co-inventors listed upon a Google patent related to search engines and web spam,[5] which was the first to publicly propose using historical data to identify link spam.
In November 2010, Cutts started a contest challenging developers to make Microsoft Kinect more compatible with the Linux operating system. At the time, Microsoft had stated that the use of Kinect with devices other than the Xbox 360 was not supported by them.[6]