Jeremy Zawodny vs. Matt Cutts : Search Blog Award
In an unofficial tribute to two bloggers who represent their search engine employers on a sometimes official and sometimes unofficial basis, Aaron Wall and I decided upon adding this final ‘category’ to the Search Engine Journal 2005 Search Blog Awards; Matt vs. Jeremy : Which Search Employee Most Likely to Flame You For Spamming?
The voting for this category is quite simple, after looking at Jeremy Zawodny’s blog (famous Yahoo Search employee and blogging champion) and the Matt Cutts blog (the savior of the webmaster world sent down from Google) , along with their postings which expose spammers of search engines, bogus content, and email junk sent out by search oriented companies – we asked voters to decide. Both blogs are authored on a casual basis, keeping a safe distance from their search giant bosses while also shedding light that only such insiders in the search technology community can bring.
While Jeremy’s focus is more on ‘2.0’ technology, cutting edge valley companies, and new Yahoo applications and acquisitions; Matt keeps readers and the SEO community on their toes with a bit of algorithm exposure and lessons in linking. Keeping tabs on both blogs, as different as they may be, helps to further understand the search engine roadmap as such companies expand into new and relevantly diverse directions.
This was a rather fun question / category which led to coverage of the Search Engine Journal Search Blog Awards on the blogs of both Cutts and Zawodny, and a little competition between the two. Such personalization of the Search Blog Awards and light hearted jabs back and forth by the nominees goes to show that thankfully this is still an open and friendly industry, which will only help to encourage more innovation and growth by developers and those not working for one of the big four.
Now on to the award! The nominees for the ‘Matt vs. Jeremy : Which Search Employee Most Likely to Flame You For Spamming?’ Category are as follows:
Matt Cutts Blog (mattcutts.com/blog/sketchy-testimonials/)
Jeremy Zawodny’s Blog (jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/002403.html)
And the winner is …
Matt Cutts and the Matt Cutts Blog. Congratulations Matt, 60.9% of Search Engine Journal readers voted you the Most Likely Search Employee to Flame for Spamming!
Our warmest thanks to both Matt & Jeremy for keeping the blogging and search communities better informed and being that this is the second award which Matt scooped up this year, we’ll be looking for something special to send his way. Physical awards will be issued after the New Year.
