The leak reportedly details what data Google collects for ranking.

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.

  • deweydecibel@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Rand Fishkin, who worked in SEO for more than a decade, says a source shared 2,500 pages of documents with him with the hopes that reporting on the leak would counter the “lies” that Google employees had shared about how the search algorithm works.

    Am I supposed to care that the poor SEO assholes that need to get their ads more visibility weren’t being given all the instructions on how to do that by the search engine?

    Most of this article is SEO “experts” complaining that some of the guidelines they were given didn’t match what’s in the internal documents.

    Google is shit, but SEO is a cancer too. I can’t be too bothered by Google jacking them around a bit.

    • Lvxferre@mander.xyzEnglish
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      1 month ago

      And I supposed to care that the poor SEO assholes that need to get their ads more visibility weren’t being given all the instructions on how to do that by the search engine?

      No. You’re supposed to care that a company is pointlessly* lying, thus it’s extremely likely to deceive, mislead and lie when it gets some benefit out of it.

      In other words: SEO arseholes can ligma, Google is lying to you and me too.

      *I say “pointlessly” because not disclosing info would achieve practically the same result as lying.