Quoting Google's Matt Cutts

 
Matt Cutts, Brett Tabke

Matt Cutts from Google was interviewed by Brett Tabke from WebMasterWorld during a so-called 'coffee talk' at Pubcon Las Vegas. Some quotes:

• There were some discussions in the past about redirects (301 and 302). We now have a framework that essentially indexes the destination.
• Duplicate content? A mechanism to determine 'who wrote this first' would be useful. It's on our radar.
• It has become more difficult to keep up splogs (i.e. spamblogs). Blogger.com now has captchas before accepting new blogposts.
• Google does not have the ability to manually boost the pagerank of certain sites. We can penalise sites by hand, and we do that for two reasons: legal (DMCA) and spam.
• Google Base is a searchable data store with a user defined database schema. You can even upload your data using RSS.
• Google does not use data from the Google Toolbar to influence pagerank or search results.
• Google will not use data from Google Analytics to influence pagerank or search results.
• Nissan is excluding all search engines from crawling its site. Why would anyone want to be excluded from search engines? If anyone knows someone at Nissan, please ask them. (I think I know, Matt: they only exclude certain portions of their site.The relevant parts, i.e. the model pages, are included, aren't they? And that's the only stuff they want to appear in the search results.)