Google recommends that If you no longer sell a product, serve a 404.
Imagine my surprise when I checked out the Google Profiles home page and clicked on the “Matt Cutts” link only to get:
Is Google trying to tell us something?
Ignore this test: Angieslist San Francisco Roofing
11 responses so far ↓
1 Tim Cohn // Mar 1, 2010 at 12:17 pm
Ouch…
2 Wesley LeFebvre // Mar 1, 2010 at 12:30 pm
Good catch. It will be interesting to see what transpires!
3 Andrew Hall // Mar 1, 2010 at 1:11 pm
Very interesting. More info about it here http://blogoscoped.com/forum/168136.html. Apparently when you delete Google Buzz from your profile it will disable your entire profile. Not very user friendly I think.
4 IVA // Mar 1, 2010 at 1:17 pm
First need to make sure Matt still with google …. Or Andrew’s point makes sense.
5 Andrew Shotland // Mar 1, 2010 at 2:01 pm
So does this mean that Matt Cutts has deleted Google Buzz from his profile?
6 Tad Chef // Mar 1, 2010 at 2:28 pm
Obviously Matt turned into a conspiracy theorist. Last time I asked him about privacy he likened privacy advocates to conspircay theorists.
7 Me // Mar 1, 2010 at 6:45 pm
He’s on Buzz right now and they just posted a link to this to show him….
8 discount pet coupons // Mar 2, 2010 at 3:34 am
Interesting!So Google is saying that if i delete my Buzz profile so i will get deleted my entire profile? No they can’t do this.Then what if i m not interested to use Buzz ?
9 johan // Mar 2, 2010 at 10:46 pm
Thanks for sharing the valuable Information Tricia it is a great Help and a useful tips
10 Craig Mullins // Mar 3, 2010 at 6:19 pm
Matt was at SMX, so he’s still with em.
11 Ryan // Mar 10, 2010 at 10:19 pm
I didn’t know Google did that, good to know.
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