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Google won’t comment on a potentially massive leak of its search algorithm documentation (www.theverge.com)
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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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[-] NutWrench@lemmy.world 34 points 10 months ago

Here's the sooper-secret search result algorithm for whatever you type into Google:

YouTube results, followed by Reddit results, followed by "Sponsored" results, followed by AI-written Bot results, then a couple pages of Amazon results and finally, on page 10 or so, a ten-year-old result that's probably no longer relevant.

[-] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

That's generally what I've found to be the case, shocking that it's considered so secret lol

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