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I think this is a bit misleading. Chrome gets access to various data to enable various features -- for example to pass your location to the website (when you al
by eterevsky 4y ago
I think this is a bit misleading. Chrome gets access to various data to enable various features -- for example to pass your location to the website (when you allow it to do so). Browsing history is used e.g. to power URL auto-completion.
This doesn't mean that this data can be used to inform Google Search ranking. That would be very shady and potentially illegal. I work for Google, and even though I do not work specifically on Search ranking, this doesn't sound like something that could be happening.
- defrost 4y agoI'd be surprised if they don't have the capability to enable "linger time" statistics that collate frequency of new web site loads, memory demands, etc for performance. This relates to the "how can they know how long I look at a web site for" asked above - if not specifically they do at least know the answer stochastically.