Matt Cutts takes sweet revenge. Defaces Dark SEO website
Wow. Matt Cutts. <takes a bow>
As reported by SearchEngineLand and a number of blogs, Matt Cutts, the head of Google’s WebSpam team, had his blog defaced by the Dark SEO Team over the weekend. Matt’s blog is down, hacked — and archives wiped out as well. Matt has posted previously to this about the site being slow (post gone, but you can see his Twitter comment here) and heading offline through Monday, so you might be seeing the screen below for awhile.
Now, Matt Cutts seems to have taken his sweet revenge. You can check it out yourself by visiting the Dark SEO’s website
The Content of the hack
Defaced by Matt ! I ownz you, Dark seo team !
Of course I’m lying when I make everyone believe that content is King.
Of course black hat SEO and spamdexing are the only Kings.
Google is just a stupid algorithm relying on spammy backlinks.
But you guys had no right to let everyone know. That’s why I defaced your bloody DST site. To show the entire world how evil a white hat can be.In fact, I’m as evil as my employer
All your backlinks are belong to us !
Head of the Google’s Webspam team
Update: Matt Cutts and Dark SEO combined to make this a successful April Fools Joke. <takes a bow again>
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In case you wish to view larger pictures, if Matt Cutts blog and Dark SEO’s website are restored to their original pristine glory
raincoaster said,
April 2, 2007 @ 8:04 am
Sweet! “Vengence is mine,” saith the pwned.
bigfoot said,
April 2, 2007 @ 8:08 am
Hell Ya. Matt ur awesome
clikey said,
April 2, 2007 @ 8:11 am
Nice!! witness the power of a white hat !!
Ajit Gaddam said,
April 3, 2007 @ 12:07 am
It seems to a joke in a very bad taste by Matt. Because of that where we believed it might be a 0day in WP, I rolled back my WP to version 2.X. Also, we stayed up in the night and rolled back AskStudent. We had DB issues.. tons of issues.. but felt it was worth it. Well Matt, you did a good job but remember with great power comes great responsibility. U did not act very responsibly.
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/april-fools-day-2007/