[beeboobaa3]

Any good summaries about what was revealed in the leak?

[janmo]

The main takeaway for me is that Google is caught lying. Many things were already assumed but Google used to deny them.

- They claimed that clicks were not a ranking factor, it turns out it is.

- Also turns out that they are using Chrome data for ranking purposes (Not good for the ongoing lawsuit)

- There is also a field called something like "is small personal site" and it presumed that those sites are penalized.

You can find a summary here: https://www.reddit.com/r/SEO/comments/1d2gllz/google_caught_...

[kobalsky]

didn’t they just leak the schema? we know they may be tracking that information but we don’t know how it affects the model

[_heimdall]

Would they track the data if they haven't been using it, or didn't expect to use it in the future?

[brokenmachine]

Didn't they just say they're not using it currently?

[UncleMeat]

It is hard to delete protobuf fields.