Matt Cutts, the currently on leave Googler, who is one of the most well known Googlers to our audience, has spoken up about the claims that Google manipulated their search suggestions for Hillary Clinton.
He did this on Twitter, in a 9 part post. Here are those tweets:
1/ @SourceFed claims "Google has been actively altering search recommendations in favor of Hillary Clinton's campaign." That's simply false.
— Matt Cutts (@mattcutts) June 10, 2016
2/ Their two anecdotes: [hillary clinton in] didn't suggest [hillary clinton indictment] & [hillary clinton cri] didn't suggest crimes.
— Matt Cutts (@mattcutts) June 10, 2016
3/ It turns out that lots of people searching for negative things about HRC search for [hillary X], not [hillary clinton X]
— Matt Cutts (@mattcutts) June 10, 2016
4/ Here's some live screenshot examples, including [hillary in] returning [hillary indictment] as first suggestion. pic.twitter.com/VEn3A4ef5y
— Matt Cutts (@mattcutts) June 10, 2016
5/ And here's some more examples of Autocomplete returning negative suggestions for HRC, including "criminal email" pic.twitter.com/5oczWWvmmU
— Matt Cutts (@mattcutts) June 10, 2016
6/ See https://t.co/5avsTVn4ab for a smart write-up about how/why Google Autocomplete appears to avoid "crimes" for all, not just HRC.
— Matt Cutts (@mattcutts) June 10, 2016
7/ Also see https://t.co/fLdlJ19BmX for another good take.
— Matt Cutts (@mattcutts) June 10, 2016
8/ P.S. @mattlieberman I asked Google's search PR. They couldn't find a record of you reaching out to Google before publishing your video?
— Matt Cutts (@mattcutts) June 10, 2016
9/ @mattlieberman this is a super-technical area. Why make a long video of these claims without doing deeper research? It's just not true.
— Matt Cutts (@mattcutts) June 10, 2016
