There is this Reddit thread asking if you blindly believe and follow what John Muller of Google says. So John actually shared this thread on Twitter and added Twitter poll asking the question. I reshared it, as did dozens of others and there are 2,792 responses.
Here is the tweet with the poll:
If you remove the “cheese responses” you get:
43% do not believe John Mueller
28% do believe John Mueller
28% sometimes believe John Mueller
The responses are currently showing that many voted for cheese, a John joke. But the rest say about 22.6% of the people always blindly believe John. That includes his colleagues, Gary Illyes and the Google Analytics team (which is where this GIF came from):
We ran a poll back in 2012 asking if Google lies and only 14% of SEOs trust Google. This set of results seems to be higher where 28 percentage believe John Mueller all the time (this is when you remove the cheese response), which is the same question as believing Google? 28% sometimes believe John and 43% never believe John.
Gary Illyes from Google once had to actually say he doesn’t lie.
Can their statements sometimes contradict or appear to contradict each others? Yes. Why is that? John said in that Reddit thread:
Hence the answer you see often, “it depends.”
