Fishkin interpreted the purported documents as suggesting that Google filters clicks.

Cited by documentation

Sources

• An Anonymous Source Shared Thousands of Leaked Google Search API Documents with Me; Everyone in SEO Should See Them

  SparkToro (Rand Fishkin) · primary source · retrieved 2026-08-18

  “Google appears to have ways to filter out clicks” — Section on click measurement in the API documents

• GoogleApi.ContentWarehouse.V1.Model.QualityNavboostCrapsCrapsClickSignals

  HexDocs (Google API Content Warehouse mirror) · primary source · retrieved 2026-08-18

  “badClicks; goodClicks; unsquashedClicks” — Attributes

• Ahrefs monthly digest: takeaways from Rand Fishkin's Google leak article

  Ahrefs · retrieved 2026-08-18

  “ways to filter out clicks they don’t want to count” — June digest, takeaways list item 1

• Google Confirms Leaked Search Documents are Real

  KBS Sidhu (Substack) · retrieved 2026-08-18

  “used to fight manual and automated click spam” — Summary of the leak's NavBoost findings

• Secrets from the Algorithm: Google Search’s Internal Engineering Documentation Has Leaked

  iPullRank · retrieved 2026-08-18

  “the systems are normalizing the click data to ensure there is no runaway manipulation based on the click signal.” — lines 129-136

Related claims

• REPEATSThe patent described ratios involving long clicks and shorter clicks as an implicit-feedback feature that could be used in ranking calculations.Under evaluation