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Okay, here you go: Google doesn't use email as an indicator in search rankings.
by Matt_Cutts 15y ago
Okay, here you go: Google doesn't use email as an indicator in search rankings.
- drakaal 15y agoRealizing not everything Google puts in Patents ends up in search, I think I still don't believe you. http://www.xyhd.tv/2011/05/industry-news/search-engine-optimization/google-may-have-been-reading-your-email-to-determine-search-ranking-as-far-back-as-2005/ http://www.xyhd.tv/2011/05/industry-news/search-engine-optim...
- jakeludington 15y agoThis patent for "Ranking blog documents" seems to disagree: http://bit.ly/msgrsv http://bit.ly/msgrsv "[0044] References to the blog document by other sources may be a positive indication of the quality of the blog document. For example, content of emails or chat transcripts can contain URLs of blog documents. Email or chat discussions that include references to the blog document is a positive indicator of the quality of the blog document." Andriy Bihun, the first name on the patent, is still a Google software engineer according to LinkedIn.
- redthrowaway 15y agoThat's a good find, but the fact that a Google employee has a patent on using email links to rank blogs doesn't necessarily mean that Google's using it.