"With the Google monopoly remedies ruling from the other day, we have even more documents from the court mentioning more about Google's search index, spam score, PageRank, page quality, Glue and more. This is all in addition to all the DOJ documents we covered earlier and that big search leak, which Google did end up responding to. We also covered yesterday the Google FastSearch bit on grounding for Gemini and user interactions and data from today."
"PageRank is a key quality signal that is one component of the quality score but "most of Google's quality signal is derived from the webpage itself." Now this is interesting! PageRank is a key quality signal that is one component of the quality score. However, it turns out that "most of Google's quality signal is derived from the webpage itself.""
Court documents describe detailed contents of Google's search index, including DocIDs, a DocID-to-URL map, timestamps, spam scores, and signals or metadata some derived from user data. Popularity, quality, and PageRank serve as signals that influence crawl frequency and ranking, with PageRank labeled a key signal while most quality signals are derived from the webpage itself. Spam score, quality, and popularity affect how often pages are crawled. Additional references include Glue, FastSearch grounding for Gemini, user interactions, DOJ documents, and a prior search leak. Statements in the documents may not reflect current production systems and include non-Googler assertions.
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