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"We're investing this now". Those 4 words are the Kiss of Death.


Especially when it's from the "head of the webspam team at Google". It's the start-up equivalent of being called into the principles office.


No kidding


Oddly, you're the second person to have misspelled it as "investing" when quoting it on this thread. Is this like a rogue / rouge thing that people get commonly tripped up on?


Oddly, he's not wrong either: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/disclosure/


Autocorrect is pretty great at turning a typo into an alternate word.


Post above yours also did principle/principal. The one no one seems to mix up is awful/offal.


5 words, right?




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