Preventing Virtual Blight: my presentation from Web 2.0 Summit

Monday, January 12, 2009

One of the things I’m thinking about in 2009 is how Google can be even more transparent and
communicate more. That led me to a personal goal for 2009: if I give a substantial conference
presentation (not just a question and answer session), I’d like to digitize the talk so that
people who couldn’t attend the conference can still watch the presentation.

In that spirit, here’s a belated holiday present. In November 2008 I spoke on a panel about
“Preventing Virtual Blight” at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. A few weeks later I ended up
recreating the talk at the Googleplex and we recorded the video. In fact, this is a “director’s
cut” because I could take a little more time for the presentation. Here’s the video of the
presentation:

And if you’d like to follow along at home, I’ll include the actual presentation as well:

You can also
access the presentation directly.
By the way thanks to Wysz for
recording this. I think we’ve got another video ready to go pretty soon, too.

Written by Matt Cutts, Search Quality Team