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The patent described ratios involving long clicks and shorter clicks as an implicit-feedback feature that could be used in ranking calculations.
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Related claims
- BROADENSA later Google-assigned patent said observed clicks can be distorted by presentation bias and should be modeled separately from result quality.Under evaluation
- REPEATSSearch Engine Land reported that Illyes said Google controlled ranking experiments in 2017 examined long clicks and short clicks.Under evaluation
- REPEATSFishkin interpreted the purported documents as suggesting that Google filters clicks.Supported
Release: seo-geo-product-v0.3 · Phase Two freeze: P2-CORE300-FINAL-v1.0 · Generated: 2026-08-23T08:01:40Z