Did you know Google may have and may be currently writing letters of recommendation for third-party digital marketing agencies? I have confirmed the letter below was uploaded to an agencies web site and the Googler who signed it did actually work at Google between the April 2015 and November 2017. I just do not know if the Googler actually wrote it and signed it or if it was made up.

The letter is written that it comes from Google’s stationary and makes the agency look like because of their special partnership with Google, I assume this is the normal Google Partner program, they are an amazing agency and you should hire them.

The letter reads:

Here is the tweet with the letter – so it is on Twitter and public:

The agency responded on Twitter with something about privacy, but this letter had to be up on their site and shared with countless people for at least a year.

Did any of you receive such a letter of recommendation from Google? This is the first I’ve ever seen of this in all my years covering search.

Forum discussion at Twitter.