The biggest findings in the Google Search leak
The biggest findings in the Google Search leak
The documents detail data collected by Google.
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the leaked documents make note of several types of clicks users make and indicate they feed into ranking pages in search.
So we've confirmed that all the pop-ups, special offers, cookie prompts, "what's new" overlays, and slideshows are probably pushing sites up to the top of search. Google has been pouring gas on the fire of things that annoy people about the open web.
Should we even be calling it the open web at this point?
Your conclusion isn't really backed up by the article or linked articles from that article. Most of those types of clicks you listed are likely going into "bad clicks" or other unknown categories in Navboost.