SEOs have been quick to use Lehman’s quotes
One of the bullets on this exhibit said the following (according to my notes): ‘Any competitor can use BERT or similar technologies. Fortunately, our training data gives us a head-start. We have the opportunity to maintain and extend our lead by fully using the training data with BERT and serving it to our users…’ This likely would have been an effective impeachment of Lehman if “training data” meant some kind of user data. But after DOJ concluded its re-direct examination, Judge Mehta asked Lehman what “training data” referred to.Lehman explained it was different from user DB to Data data.” What is it like to compete against Google? Sensitive Topics. Lehman was also asked by DOJ attorney Erin Murdock-Park about a slide from one of his slide decks on “Sensitive Topics” that instructed employees to “not discuss the use of clicks in search…” According to reporting from Big Tech on Trial (via X), Lehman said “we try to avoid confirming that we use user data in the ranking of search results.” The reporter X post says “I didn’t get great notes on this, but I think the reason had something to do with not wanting people to think that SEO could be used to manipulate search results.
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Google liars? Since discovering this testimony, as definitive proof that Google has been lying about using clicks or click-through rate for all of its 25 years. The question of whether Google uses clicks was the first question asked last week during an AMA with Google’s Gary Illyes at Pubcon Pro in Austin. Illyes answer was “technically, yes,” because Google uses historical search data for its machine-learning algorithm RankBrain. Technically yes, translated from Googler speak, means yes. RankBrain was trained on user search data. We know this because Illyes already told us this in I am Gary Illyes, Google’s Chief of Sunshine and Happiness & trends analyst.
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