Evidence

What the public record says about clicks.

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Google patents and testimony in United States v. Google describe systems that use click and dwell data in ranking.

Patent

Modifying search result ranking based on implicit user feedback

The patent describes using measures of how users interact with search results, including how long they stay on a result after clicking, to adjust ranking.

US Patent 8,661,029 (Google)

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Court record

Trial testimony on NavBoost

Google engineers testified that NavBoost, a system that uses click data from past searches, is one of the signals used in ranking web results.

United States v. Google LLC (2023)

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Opdateret 26. oktober 2026

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