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Fishkin interpreted the purported documents as suggesting that Google measures click length.
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- 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
“They also seem to measure length of clicks (i.e. pogo-sticking” — Section '#1: Navboost and the use of clicks, CTR, long vs. short clicks, and user data'
“leaked data about "good" and "bad" clicks, including length of clicks” — Caption of first document screenshot
- Google Algorithm Leak: The Source Awakens
Atlas SEO · retrieved 2026-08-18
“Google also appears to measure the length of clicks” — Section '1) Types of Clicks' summarizing Fishkin's five discoveries
- Breaking Down the Google Search Documentation Leak
Neil Patel / NP Digital · retrieved 2026-08-18
“It also looks like they measure the length of clicks.” — lines 221-231
Release: seo-geo-product-v0.3 · Phase Two freeze: P2-CORE300-FINAL-v1.0 · Generated: 2026-08-23T08:01:40Z