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In April, Google senior engineer Matt Cutts asked users to report sites they spotted running paid links.

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Google spokesperson Matt Cutts has publicly opposed all link buying or selling, arguing that it biases Google's search results.

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Matt Cutts is a Google associate who gives insights into the company, its search engine algorithm updates, and other SEO issues.

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After Zuckerberg and Page, the top 10 is rounded out with four more prominent Google staffers (co-founder Sergey Brin, engineers Vic Gundotra, Matt Cutts and Bradley Horowitz) and tech journalists Robert Scoble, Leo Laporte, MG Siegler and Gina Trapani.

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The post on the official Google blog announcing the new extension, written by search czar Matt Cutts, would seem to give the lie to a claim by Demand Media CEO Richard Rosenblatt that his company is not among the spam purveyors that Google is trying to filter out.

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