“Many of their claims directly contradict public statements made by Googlers over the years, in particular the company’s repeated denial that click-centric user signals are employed”
Google spent years telling site owners that clicks don’t drive rankings. The leaked documents describe NavBoost, which counts clicks, long clicks and short clicks, and feeds on logged-in Chrome data. The source claims hunger for clickstream data was a key reason Chrome exists. The browser was never the product. You were.