It doesn't look like a leak but a misdeployment.
Same service wrappers from two years ago: https://github.com/googleapis/google-api-php-client-services...
Anonymous Source Shared Leaked Google Search API Documents
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Re: Anonymous Source Shared Leaked Google Search API Documents
#122Most of the factors in ranking a page are no surprise. But i was surprised that having Product reviews on your site is apparently a demotion? Surely, many people are searching to find just that?
Re: Anonymous Source Shared Leaked Google Search API Documents
#123Most of the factors in ranking a page are no surprise. But i was surprised that having Product reviews on your site is apparently a demotion? Surely, many people are searching to find just that?
I don’t trust conflicts of interest, if that’s about a site selling it’s own product and having reviews, I’m glad to find that results in a demotion
While bigger marketplaces have other ways of driving ranking
Re: Anonymous Source Shared Leaked Google Search API Documents
#124Most of the factors in ranking a page are no surprise. But i was surprised that having Product reviews on your site is apparently a demotion? Surely, many people are searching to find just that?
This is likely more about reviews with affiliate links. 99.99% of those are people reviewing absolutely nothing, just copying reviews and putting their own affiliate link.
Re: Anonymous Source Shared Leaked Google Search API Documents
#125> Thousands of documents, which appear to come from Google’s internal Content API Warehouse, were released March 13 on Github by an automated bot called yoshi-code-bot
Does anyone know more about yoshi-code-bot and how were these documents suddenly published?
Was it a script misconfiguration? A manual push? Something else?
Re: Anonymous Source Shared Leaked Google Search API Documents
#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
You’re conflating lots of unrelated things. IE was a horrible browser to support because Microsoft deliberately implemented their own incompatible version of web standards, or refused to implement modern standards. The push to deprecate IE was because it was creating a massive burden, I personally dealt with IE6 support in corporate world and can attest it’s depreciation was necessary. What you call chrome skins isn’…
You’re responding to someone complaining about an overly authoritative government by saying that you don’t see the problem, it’s just that the local police force tortures people with downright medieval techniques.
What
Re: Anonymous Source Shared Leaked Google Search API Documents
#127Sometimes I wonder how much better the internet would be hits on Google weren't directly tied to revenue from Google itself through its ad program. I am certain Google has made the internet and the world a worse place to live.
Re: Anonymous Source Shared Leaked Google Search API Documents
#128> Thousands of documents, which appear to come from Google’s internal Content API Warehouse, were released March 13 on Github by an automated bot called yoshi-code-bot Does anyone know more about yoshi-code-bot and how were these documents suddenly published? Was it a script misconfiguration? A manual push? Something else?
https://github.com/yoshi-code-bot
Created 1,891 commits in 19 repositories
All 19 is under googleapis
This looks like a bot Google uses to publish their stuff on github and so likely it's a misconfiguration.
Re: Anonymous Source Shared Leaked Google Search API Documents
#129Most of the factors in ranking a page are no surprise. But i was surprised that having Product reviews on your site is apparently a demotion? Surely, many people are searching to find just that?
“xx,xxx five star reviews” I’ve found is a modern day over-marketed product trope. It feels well within the realm of reasons that this ends up serving as a useful heuristic.
Re: Anonymous Source Shared Leaked Google Search API Documents
#130If there are really 14,000 attributes, most of them will have a weight near 0, thus are irrelevant. If they would be all heavy weighted, the ranking would be rendered irrelevant due to the sheer amount of attributes.