Google Confirms the Leaked Search Documents Are Real

Google has confirmed the authenticity of 2,500 leaked internal documents detailing the company's data collection practices. The documents offer insights into Google's closely guarded search ranking algorithm. However, Google cautioned against making inaccurate assumptions based on incomplete information. The Verge adds: The leaked material suggests that Google collects and potentially uses data that company representatives have said does not contribute to ranking webpages in Google Search, like clicks, Chrome user data, and more. The thousands of pages of documents act as a repository of information for Google employees, but it's not clear what pieces of data detailed are actually used to rank search content -- the information could be out of date, used strictly for training purposes, or collected but not used for Search specifically. The documents also do not reveal how different elements are weighted in search, if at all.

Re:Bout to find out

[EddydaSquige]

You're going to find out they have a gigantic corporate bias in the search. It's not about pushing a political agenda, it's about making money. It's all about making money.

Re:Bout to find out

[Dan East]

they have a gigantic corporate bias in the search

I have news for you: they can have more than one bias / agenda.

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[ArchieBunker]

Can you give an example of Google’s gigantic liberal bias?

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[smooth wombat]

Can you give an example of Googleâ(TM)s gigantic liberal bias?

No, they can't. I guarantee neither they, nor anyone, will provide any information to show this "gigantic" liberal bias. At best, anything provided will show what a joke the Google search has become.

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[farble1670]

Just like Amazon, their ad-cluttered search interface

Well, I just loaded google.com. There were zero adds. The page is mostly empty. There are some text-only links around the edges to google labs, settings, google store, some student contest. The page is mostly empty. It looked exactly the same w/ ad block on and off (I'm sure some things were different under the hood).

is just the end result of focusing on an ever increasing profit margin.

Corporations trying to increase profits? The hell you say...

FTFY

[zlives]

Google Confirms it Leaked the Search Documents

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[nadass]

Google Confirms it Leaked the Search Documents

Since the "documents" were simply commented API wrapper files that were mistakenly publicly-disclosed (and eventually re-privatized) to a publicly-accessible Git repository, with commit history on full display, it's quite trivial to re-access those "documents." (And even if they re-home their Git repos, these repos/branches were already copied by git-bots so they're archived in numerous places already.)

Their bigger concern isn't the Search algorithms but cybersecurity. Internal project/team names, accoun

Valuable Information!

[endus]

Valuable information if you want to launch a competing horrible web search service. To make google as awful as it is has taken years of research!

Google are saying...

[VeryFluffyBunny]

..."Yeah, we know what this looks like but let us explain..." & then not explaining. So yeah, it more than likely is what it looks like... or maybe even worse if the information's incomplete.