Why might a page with bad backlinks links be ranking highly?

Matt Cutts answers 3 great questions asked recently in Webmasters Academy

Published on Apr 1, 2013
I've seen multiple websites that appear in the #1 spot for various keywords, whose backlink profiles are pretty low quality (i.e. lower quality blog pages). Why wouldn't Penguin have moved these sites further down in rankings?jadoray, Idaho

How can a legitimate business compete online?

Published on Apr 3, 2013
Ranking being so valuable, how does a true biz owner that offers a legitimate business and has a vast number of customers supposed to gain the traffic "deserved" over those that specialize in creating traffic? Is it supposed to be this hard for us?
GrowthWill, Arkansas
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Where do you see Google Search 10 years from now?

Published on Mar 27, 2013
Where do you see Google search 10 years down the road?
jmac, Austin, TX