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The February 2025 call notes described user clicks as one type of data Google uses when fitting the majority of ranking signals.
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- Exhibit PXR0356: February 18, 2025 Call with Google Engineer HJ Kim (redacted public version)
U.S. Department of Justice (US v. Google exhibit) · primary source · retrieved 2026-08-21
“For the majority of signals, Google takes the relevant data (e.g., webpage content and structure, user clicks, and label data from human raters)” — Page 1, Section I "Hand Crafting" of Signals, final bullet
- The ABCs of Google ranking signals: What top search engineers revealed
Search Engine Land · retrieved 2026-08-21
“For most signals, Google uses regression analysis on webpage content, user clicks, and human rater labels.” — Section on signal hand-crafting, summarizing the Feb 18, 2025 Kim call
Related claims
Release: seo-geo-product-v0.3 · Phase Two freeze: P2-CORE300-FINAL-v1.0 · Generated: 2026-08-23T08:01:40Z