Lower latency to google should have no bearing on serps. Lower latency to the user should. If, ceteris paribus, google sites are lower ranked then yes, that s

Lower latency to google should have no bearing on serps. Lower latency to the user should. If, ceteris paribus, google sites are lower ranked then yes, that should be illegal. ie consider regression and compute I[google] + site_speed; after controlling for site speed, being a google owned property shouldn't matter. It's fine if google owned sites tend to be faster and hence are more lowly ranked. I specifically meant more along the lines of google can view your navigation through GA tooled sites, and there is a wealth of information that can be derived from that.