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==Education==
Cutts completed his high school career in [[Morehead, Kentucky]] at [[Rowan County Senior High School]].<ref>{{cite web|author=Grant Stevens|url=http://www.themoreheadnews.com/news/local_news/google-this-matt-cutts-hometown-proud/article_28497026-6891-5e87-8252-0606305e197b.html|title=Google this: Matt Cutts, hometown proud|publisher=The Morehead News|date=13 July 2012|accessdate=10 February 2016}}</ref> He received a bachelor's degree in computer science and mathematics from the [[University of Kentucky]] in 1995.<ref name="kykernel.com">{{cite news |url= http://kykernel.com/2012/10/21/google-employee-matt-cutts-returns-to-uk/ |title= Google employee Matt Cutts returns to UK |work= [[The Kentucky Kernel]] |publisher= [[University of Kentucky]] |first= Christina |last= Olgiate |date= October 21, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.cs.uky.edu/people/alumnicorner/cutts |title= Just Google Him: CS alumnus talks about how UK prepared him to work for the Search giant |publisher= [[University of Kentucky]], Department of Computer Science, College of Engineering |date= August 26, 2011}}</ref> He went on to receive a [[Master of Science]] degree from the [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]] in 1998.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://cs.unc.edu/NewsAndNotes/Issue24/ |title= Graduate School Honors Fellowship Winners |work= News And Notes |issue= 24 |date= Spring 1999 |publisher= Department of Computer Science, [[The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]]}}</ref>
==Career==
Cutts started his career in [[Search engine|search]] when working on his [[Ph.D.]] at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In January 2000, Cutts joined Google as a software engineer.<ref name=Cutts /> At 2007 PubCon, Cutts stated that his field of study was [[computer science]]; he then moved into the field of [[information retrieval]] and search engines after taking two outside classes from the university's [[Library and Information Science|Information and Library Science]] department.<ref>{{cite web |last=Kaushal |first=Navneet |title=PubCon – Matt Cutts Keynote |url=http://www.webpronews.com/pubcon-matt-cutts-keynote-2007-12 |work=PubCon 2007 |publisher=WebProNews |accessdate=October 7, 2012}}</ref>
Before working at the Search Quality group at Google, Cutts worked at the ads engineering group and SafeSearch, Google's family filter, which he designed.<ref name="Cutts">{{cite web|url=http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/about-me/|title=About Me|work=Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.zdnet.com/article/googles-chastity-belt-too-tight/|title=Google's chastity belt too tight |date=April 23, 2004 |publisher=ZDNet |accessdate=January 13, 2015}}</ref> There, he earned the nickname "porn cookie guy" by giving his wife's homemade cookies to any Googler who provided an example of unwanted pornography in the search results.<ref>{{cite news |url= https://www.usatoday.com/money/books/reviews/2005-11-13-google-book_x.htm |title= 'Google': An interesting read on a powerhouse company |work= [[USA Today]] |date= November 13, 2005}}</ref>
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