One of those, “why didn’t I think of that” idea – introducing theshortcutts.com.

The Short Cutts catalogues the 500+ videos Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, published at the YouTube Webmaster Help channel and gives you the short answer to all the questions asked.

So instead of watching the videos, which can typically be about 4 minutes per video, you can just read the short question and answer as summarized by Click Consult. Now often it is useful to hear and see the details in how Matt answers a question but if you are in a rush, this is a great resource.

For example, the question Does Google still need text to understand my site? gets a one word answer “Yes.”

Here is that video:

Forum discussion at Google+.