[paxys]

I found it very weird that he was interviewed by The Verge in his capacity as a Google employee, with full blessing from the company's comms team and whoever else, and then decided to post a rebuttal of the article on his personal blog with a large disclaimer that the thoughts are his alone and not his employer's.

[bhartzer]

I get what you're saying, it's weird to interview him as a Google employee. But actually it would be really weird if they didn't include Danny Sullivan in the article in some capacity. Danny Sullivan, over the years, has been so influential and such an influential voice when it comes to Search and SEO. He previously was on the other side, not working for Google.

[dannysullivan]

It's because when I was interviewed, what I said was all speaking officially for Google. You can attribute anything there to the company directly.

My blog post -- I wrote that on my own. No one from the Google communications team reviewed it, approved it, vetted it and so on. That's what I was trying to explain.

That doesn't mean, of course, people won't think it somehow reflects on Google or what I do there. It no doubt will. But that's not quite the same thing as something being an official company statement.