300m - 9:12 pm on Jul 6, 2006 (gmt 0)

"Matt, focusing on spam!? Give me a break."
I never said that was Google's top priority, but yes that is his job i think.

"He is google's main pr man.He is doing too many other things to be focussed on spam."

He is not the main PR man. He was on vacation, but as a department head for spam, he should have a team the can work seamlessly regardless if he is there or not.

I am not trying to defend him at all, i am only trying to say that he is the spam guy and while he does more than likely have a great influence within Google, there are different departments that handle different tasks and that in the way i see it, many people like to come down on Matt about stuff, when the problem is indexing issues which he is not part of.

I think that its kind of like going over to a department store for a hammer and asking people over in the clothing department what the best hammer is they offer.

However, i do beleive that spam is a problem on various keywords i watch, but i dont think that it an issue of spam at this point, i think that the index is pushed and it gets wacky for a while.