Lightning Round matt cutts video transcript

Alright this is Matt Cutts Coming to you on July 31st Monday 2006 this is probably the last one ill do tonight so lets see if I can kind of do a lightning round. Alright Peer rights in and says



Is it possible to search just for homepages? I tried doing minus in URL html and in URL htm , so and so URL php , ASP but that doesn't filter out enough. That's a really good suggestion peter having thought about that, fast used to offer something like that I think all they did was look for a tilde in the URL I would file that as a feature request and see if people are willing to prioritize that if we are willing to offer that. My guess is it will be relatively low on the priority list because the syntax you mentioned subtracting a bunch of extensions would probably work pretty well.

I got to clarify something about strong Vs Bold, Emphasis Vs Italic. There is a previous question where somebody asks whether it is better to use bold or it is better to use strong because bold is where it was used in olden days when the dinosaurs were roaming the earth and strong is what the w3c recommends. And that time last night I thought that we barely , barely like we prefer bold over strong and I said its not the most part that you would worry about it and the next thing is that a engineer really took me to a code and showed me in live and I can see that Google treats bold and strong exactly the same weight. So thank you for that paul I really appreciate it. And also I saw an other part of the code where the M ( emphasis ) and italics are exactly treated the same. So there you have it so mark it like W3C wants to do it, do it semantically well , do it and don't worry about just small tags because Google will treat just the same way of both the versions.



Ok next in Lightning round Amanda Asks " Do we have more kiddy posts in the future"?
I think we will, I tried to bring my cats here around me but they are afraid of lights and just jumped off. Ill see if I can bring them in future.

Tom Html asks, Where is Google SST, Google guest , google weaver, google market place, google RS 2.0 and other services discovered by tony rescow?

I think its very clear for tony to do a dictionary tag again, services check-in but I am not going to talk about what all those services are.

A preview Joseph Hunkins asks what many topics will be there in duplicate contents as yet, a little bit of a preview on one of the other sessions is on video but I think what I basically want to talk about is it will be there lot of people will be there it will be shingling
What I want to say is Google detects duplicate contents all the way from crawl to all the way people see things when searching. We do stuff that's exact duplicate detection and we do stuff that's near duplicate detection so we do a pretty good job all the along the line like detecting dupes and stuff like that.

And so the best advice I give is to make sure your duplicate contents like the page that has contents as much similar as possible to make it look as much different as possible if they are truly different content. A lot of people talked about word versions or .doc compared to html files typically no need to worry about that if it has similar contents on different domains may be French and an other version in English you really don't need to worry about that, again if you do have the exact same content may be for a Canadian site and for a .com site so probably we will roll the dice and see which ever one looks better to us and just show that but it wouldn't necessarily trigger any sort of penalty or anything like that if you want to avoid you can make sure your templates are very, very different but better if the contents are similar its better to show us which ever is the most ideal for representation and guess the best anyway. And Thomas writes in and says does Google index and rank blog sites different than regular sites?

That's a good question not really, somebody asked me whether links from gov, edu's , and links from two level deep govs and edus like gov.pl or gov.in are the same as .gov?

The fact is really we don't have much of a difference in a way to say hey this is a link from ODP or .gov or .edu and so on. There is no some sort of special boost its just that those sites have higher Pagerank because more people tend to link to them and reputable people link to them so blog sites there aren't anything distinct unless if you go off to blog search ofcourse and its blogs and totally restrained to blogs. SO in theory we could rank them differently but most part its just a general search the way it falls out.

Alright thanks.

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