Matt Cutts teaches Washington, DC all about Google
Matt Cutts (the head of Google’s search spam team) was visiting Washington DC in 2011 to give an “educational tour”, to show members of the US Federal Trade Commission and staffers from Congress that Google’s results don’t need government regulation.
A slide presentation of 89 pages, “Search Integrity” at Google’s Washington, D.C. office was part of his visit.
Cutts stated the exact same message that Google has been repeating to search marketers for many years: that Google’s results were determined by an algorithm, and are not manipulated in any way to rank particular websites well.
The only reason I can think of for me to manually change search rankings is security or a court order. You cannot pay to get a higher ranking.
Matt Cutts as reported in The Washington Post
You can read all about it at Mr. Cutts goes to Washington and proves that Google has integrity
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