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.
If they’re taking tips from Google, why would they get better?
Google actually was good, so there’s probably some good information in this documentation. If nothing else we can perhaps figure out what “went wrong.”
That was an interesting read. Thanks for linking to it.