Back in July 2014 Matt Cutts announced he would go on an extended vacation and then extended his vacation and still there are no signs of him coming back.
But that doesn't mean he is out of the loop, he still very much so checks in on what is going on. Want proof?
Matt Cutts responded on Twitter about a complaint about Chrome search redirecting UK users to US search results. He was so tuned in that he even knew that John Mueller from Google was trying to obtain IP data from users with this issue and he told him to reach out to John and send him the data.
Here is Matt's tweet:
@aqilrouf send examples to @JohnMu ? I believe he's been looking and hasn't found as many as some claim?
— Matt Cutts (@mattcutts) February 3, 2015
Of course, this is one example but there are many examples where Matt Cutts shows that he still stays on top of the industry. I just wish he would come back, I really do. :)
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