Google's Gary Illyes With A Black Hat (& His Bobble Head)

Nov 18, 2015 - 7:37 am 2 — by
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Google's Gary Illyes With A Black Hat

Check it out, Google's very own spam fighter, Gary Illyes, has turned. He is wearing a black hat. At least here are pictures of him at the State Of Search with a black hat on his head. Of course, one can easily make the connection that he has jumped ship and went over to the dark side of SEO. Or not. I mean, his bobble head version is not sporting the black hat.

This picture was posted on Twitter by Greg Gifford. @jennyhalasz also has a picture of him in a black hat.

This post is part of our daily Search Photo of the Day column, where we find fun and interesting photos related to the search industry and share them with our readers.

 

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