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Assertion Partly supported
Cutts: HUD has over 8,000 employees and zero IT staff under 30
“HUD, Housing and Urban Development, has 8000 plus employees. According to the statistics, the number of IT experts, like, there's a job classification, 2210, blah blah blah, we'll just say IT people. The number of IT people under 30 at HUD is zero.”
Matt Cutts Dec 4, 2019 ▶ 26:48 Matt Cutts on the US Digital Service and Working at Google for 17 Years · Y Combinator
Assertion Supported
Cutts: The SearchKing lawsuit established search results are First Amendment protected
“The result of that lawsuit was that search results are protected by the first amendment.”
Matt Cutts Dec 4, 2019 ▶ 8:36 Matt Cutts on the US Digital Service and Working at Google for 17 Years · Y Combinator
Assertion Supported
Cutts: Google AdWords' first self-service customer was a Maine lobster business
“And the first self-service ad we got for AdWords was, I think, for a lobster company. Like, you could buy lobsters in Maine and have them, like, you know, pecked in dry ice and shipped to you.”
Matt Cutts Dec 4, 2019 ▶ 5:51 Matt Cutts on the US Digital Service and Working at Google for 17 Years · Y Combinator
Assertion Supported
Cutts: The US federal government never ran bug bounties before 2016
“And then the federal government had never done bug bounties before 2016.”
Matt Cutts Dec 4, 2019 ▶ 33:33 Matt Cutts on the US Digital Service and Working at Google for 17 Years · Y Combinator
Assertion Supported
Cutts: Netscape invented software bug bounties in 1995
“Bug bounties were invented in 1995 by Netscape, which was a browser that came before Firefox, for those of you who weren't born then.”
Matt Cutts Dec 4, 2019 ▶ 33:22 Matt Cutts on the US Digital Service and Working at Google for 17 Years · Y Combinator
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