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Google won’t comment on a potentially massive leak of its search algorithm documentation (www.theverge.com)

submitted 5 months ago by Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de to c/technology@lemmy.world

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A purported leak of 2,500 pages of internal documentation from Google sheds light on how Search, the most powerful arbiter of the internet, operates.

The leaked documents touch on topics like what kind of data Google collects and uses, which sites Google elevates for sensitive topics like elections, how Google handles small websites, and more. Some information in the documents appears to be in conflict with public statements by Google representatives, according to Fishkin and King.

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[–] Danterious@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

I guess we are going to be in for more SEO spam than usual if this document is accurate. But I think its good that we are finally going to get a better understanding how Google manipulates people with the algorithm.

So a win-lose situation.

~Anti~ ~Commercial-AI~ ~license~ ~(CC~ ~BY-NC-SA~ ~4.0)~

[–] zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

More seo spam? What isn't already?

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 months ago

Yeah, what isn’t SEO spam—Search Engine Optimization spam, SEO marketing, keyword stuffing, Google keyword stuffing, backlink building, best backlinks, best backlinks for backlink building

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 3 points 5 months ago

Heh. Now I can look forward to a new browser plugin that automatically jumps to the first page of Google results that contains any entry that isn't a Viagra ad. Huge time saver!