About that Google Search leak
I'm being asked how important this apparent leak of ~14,000 Google
Search related parameters really is. My take is that it's interesting,
but personally I don't think it's very important. The reason is pretty
obvious. The list apparently tells us nothing about which of these
factors are really used by Google when ranking sites, or if they were,
how they were weighted, when they were used, and ... well you get the
idea.
It's completely reasonable to create an extremely exhaustive list like
that even if you never end up using most of those factors. That's the
way I would do it -- figure out every possible factor and then over
time mix and match from various of them as necessary, especially to
thwart black hat SEO. So again, I think this leak is intellectually
fascinating, but attempts to use it against Google are (again, in my
opinion) probably off the mark. -L
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