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Matt Cutts discusses the practice of using JavaScript to hide email addresses.

Matt Cutts gives a tour of a hidden gem found in Google Labs. Check out Google City Tours: citytours.googlelabs.com More Google Labs: googlelabs.com

What happens when you lose a bet at Google?

Brian Hancock from Long Island, NY asks: "How much does the size of a web site (# indexed pages/content) have an effect on its authority in Google's eyes?"

Magico from London, UK asks: "Google is currently showing local results for generic terms (such as "restaurants") even when you don't specify a town/city.

Matt Cutts talks about "sock puppet marketing."

Matt Cutts talks about geographic targeting in Webmaster Tools.

Daniel from Thailand asks: "Hi Matt!

Paul Randall from Yeovil, England asks: "Does Google take into account the URL of an image when searching - e.g.

Matt Cutts demonstrates a few features of the "Search Options" panel in Google search.

Matt Cutts demonstrates a new way to research keywords. To see more Search Options features, check out this video: youtube.com/watch?v=8bhLXrsnqCI

Matt Cutts demonstrates Google search with My Location.

Raj in India asks: "HTML site map v/s XML Sitemap. Which one is yummy for Google search engine spider?"

jman from Melbourne, Australia asks: "What are Google's thoughts on blog commenting? Obviously spammers out there are using this technique to build links. What is Google doing to combat this?"

Matt Cutts explains why a page that is disallowed in robots.txt may still appear in Google's search results.

Ian M in the United Kingdom asks: "Will Google ever provide statistics on browser/OS market share, like NetApplications/StatCounter/etc.?

Rob from The Netherlands asks: "Can the "Change of address" feature in Google Webmaster Tools be used to merge two websites (Site B becomes a part of Site A), or is its use limited to moving a site

Matt Cutts shows off a special mode of Google Reader.

David in Berlin, Germany asks: "A question to non-intended duplicate content: If an online shop can be reached through several TLDs (like .de, .at, .ch) and the only difference is the currency (and

Martokus from Sofia, Bulgaria asks: "What is the best way to serve different content according to user country IP (legal reasons)?" This video is part of a "Grab Bag" series in which Matt Cutts

Ian M in the UK asks: "Are you ever going to do "weather reports" like Yahoo! does for algorithm updates?

Biz from the USA asks: "Is there a way to benefit from content scraped from your site?" This video is part of a "Grab Bag" series in which Matt Cutts, head of Google's webspam team, answers

For more information, please see the our blog post: googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/09/google-does-not-use-keywords-meta-tag.html

Magico from London, UK asks: "Now that Google can crawl JavaScript links, what is going to happen with all those paid links that were behind JavaScript code?

Michael Thingmand from Denmark asks: "Why doesn't google.com validate (according to W3C)?" This video is part of a "Grab Bag" series in which Matt Cutts, head of Google's webspam team, answers

Blind Five Year Old from San Francisco, CA asks: "Does Google have any suggestions (or data) on the impact of pipes versus dashes in the title tag?" This video is part of a "Grab Bag" series in

Presented by Greg Grothaus of Google.

Pulkit Agrawal from Ahmedabad, India asks: "Whenever Google detects a violation of its Webmaster Guidelines, can we expect a feature to be added in Google Webmaster Central where it could help the

Matt Cutts discusses and demos the Google Mobile App, one of Google's "hidden gems."

Leon from the UK asks: "Does GoogleBot use inference when spidering - having crawled site.com/article/page1.htm and /page2.htm, can it guess at the existence of a /page3.htm and crawl it?