# Matt Cutts on ranking, spam and the future of search

Friday, July 18, 2008


During a recent visit to the Mountain View Googleplex, I had the chance to interview Matt Cutts
for our [German Webmaster Blog](https://developers.google.com/search/blog?hl=de). While enjoying the California
sunshine we chatted about how to rank in Google, resources for webmasters and Matt's first
encounter with spam. As these topics are not only interesting for a German audience, I want to
share them with you as well. So watch the video and find out how difficult it can be for the head
of webspam engineering to surf the Internet. :)
[Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdNG7ptsCMQ)


If you speak German you might want to check out the
[German translation](https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2008/07/matt-cutts-on-ranking-spam-and-future?hl=de)
of the interview.

Posted by Juliane Stiller, Search Quality Team