Matt Cutts

Matt Cutts started his career in search when working on his Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Matt Cutts got his Bachelor's degree at the University of Kentucky and Master's degree from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
In January 2000 Matt Cutts joined Google Search Engine as a software engineer. At 2007 PubCon, Matt Cutts stated that his field of study was computer science; he then moved into the field of information retrieval, and search engines after taking two outside classes from the university's Information and Library Science department. Before working at the Search Quality group at Google, Matt 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 Google who provided an example of unwanted pornography in the search results.

Matt Cutts is one of the co-inventors listed upon a Google patent related to search engines and web spam.
In November 2010, Matt Cutts started a contest challenging developers to make Microsoft (MS) Kinect more compatible with the Linux operating system. At the time, MS had stated that the use of Kinect with devices other than the Xbox 360 was not supported by them.
Matt Cutts has given advice and made statements on help related to the use of the Google search engine and related issues.

In January 2012, on the news that Google had violated its own best quality guidelines, Matt Cutts defended the downgraded Page Rank (PR) of the Google Chrome (Browser) homepage results noting that it was not given special dispensation.