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Has Matt Cutts 302 Hijacked Himself?
Last week I pointed out what I thought was now a pretty irrelevant SERP. I mean sure, it was pretty big news within the SEO industry, but for normal folk looking for “caffeine” related information I’d say it was given too much real estate within the SERP what with the Sandbox, Google Webmaster Central Blog, and Matt Cutts’ blog ranking 2nd, 3rd and 4th respectively.
I’d say that the fact that these websites are ranking so well, so quickly, for such a competitive term, had to be QDF related, so I decided to keep an eye on this SERP to see what happened as the freshness lapsed. Today, the same SERP looks as follows:

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- @spotify Upgraded to Premium last night, but having login issues this morning via the iPhone app - are there known problems atm?
- @GlastoWatch oh, didn't realise that
- @GlastoWatch woah - just read that post - has the price of the tickets gone up? Don't remember them costing £195 before
- @buffystar yep - was down earlier. back up now, but still a bit temperamental
- Holy sh*t - Facebook is down
- http://digg.com/videos - kinda surprised that URL still ranks in Google. Though it would've been dropped by now
- @timaldiss no worries - out of town anyways. Next time
- @timaldiss which hours would they be?whereabouts in london? I've got plans, but may be able to rearrange
- @ralphsparkle Exhibition space? http://yfrog.com/nd8j6j
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