Matt Cutts, the former head of search quality at Google, has announced he officially has resigned from Google as of December 31, 2016. He has decided to stay on with the US Digital Service and has been appointed the director of engineering for that governmental department. Matt Cutts first went on leave at Google in 2014 and decided to extend his leave shortly after. Then in May 2015, Matt Cutts had his job replaced by an unnamed Googler. After that, he confirmed he was still on leave with Google. In mid-2016 he started working with the US Digital Service team and he has enjoyed it so much, he decided to make it official. He is officially no longer on leave with Google, after resigning at the end of this year. He is the director of engineering of the USDS. Matt wrote:
Matt Cutts was one of the first 100 employees at Google. He was one of the most well-known Googlers within the search marketing industry. He has spoken at many of our conferences, provided invaluable contributions to our industry and to Google. But it was time for him to move on and work on big government problems, instead of working on problems at Google. Matt shared this video to explain why he finds what the USDS does to be so important: The post Matt Cutts officially resigns from Google appeared first on Search Engine Land. via Search Engine Land http://ift.tt/2k7vl6C
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