On April Fools, Matt Cutts, the on leave head of Google's search quality team, announced a new spam ...

1. Matt Cutts Google AutoSEO April Fools Prank Gets Over
3,000 Beta Requests
On April Fools, Matt Cutts, the on leave head of Google's search quality team, announced a new
spam tool named AutoSEO. He said you can request to be part of a limited beta and provided this
form to fill out. Here is a picture of the form:
Over 3,000 people requested a beta invite to Matt's fake AutoSEO tool. That is pretty impressive for
a real tool, let alone an April Fools prank.
Jennifer Slegg asked Matt and he responded a few days later saying on Twitter:
I have to be honest, I filled it out, but only because I thought the April Fools prank would be more
elaborate. I thought that either immediately after I filled it out or hours later, I would get some sort
of follow up April Fools prank. Nope, nothing yet. Who knows, maybe it will work itself into a prank
for April Fools 2016?
But anyway, it is pretty impressive to get 3,000 beta requests for fake software, let alone real
software.
Forum discussion at Twitter.
http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~r/SearchEngineRoundtable1/~3/_oZOrvX6PHs/matt-cutts-autoseo-ov
er-3-000-requests-for-invites-20101.html