Matt Cutts, a software engineer and an eloquent corporate spokesman for Google, spoke at PubCon earlier this month and later gave a video interview to Web Pro News, in which he said that the speed at which web pages are available might become a factor in SEO moving into 2010. He said that because many within Google consider fastness to be vital to the web, the company is considering making web site speed a factor in calculating page rankings.
via gigaom.com
Wow, this would be brilliant. It would also give a lot of engineers reason to get paid more to make sure the site works fast.
And any idea that gets engineers more money, I'm for. Woo.