A week after Google's Matt Cutts set the SEO world ablaze by asking webmasters to report cases of link-buying, his area of the Googleplex is decidedly silent – and so is the media relations department regarding a double-dipping Google executive's association with a questionable made-for-AdSense company.
Googler Games Google; Cutts Goes Silent
Is there are connection between Cutts' standoffishness and Google's unwillingness to return comment from vice president of advertising sales
And then, silence – the textual kind of silence that comes in the form of automated email responses just when we need answers most. A month's vacation is on the horizon, it said, and "swamped" transformed into "unavailable" to prepare for the coming absence.
While that could be just what it is (Occam's Razor would demand we assume so – career before the press, a responsible employee prioritizing his commitments), the timing of Cutts' silence is either unfortunate and coincidental, or just enigmatic enough to be interesting.
His silence matches corporate's silence in the face of questions regarding Armstrong, who has made a fair bit of cash through "content recycling" and whose other company, Associated Content, until recently, regularly bought (rented) text link ads.
Armstrong's affiliation with the company was spotlighted by
But recently, it has gotten more attention, especially as Google's (new) distaste for link buying comes to light via Matt Cutts. Suddenly, the silence from within the Googleplex is deafening.
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