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Google accidentally published internal Search documentation to GitHub.


Commit snafu slapped an irrevocable Apache 2.0 license on confidential API Docs.

Google apparently accidentally posted a big stash of internal technical documents to GitHub, partially detailing how the search engine ranks webpages. For most of us, the question of search rankings is just "are my web results good or bad," but the SEO community is both thrilled to get a peek behind the curtain and up in arms since the docs apparently contradict some of what Google has told them in the past. Both bits of commentary from the SEO experts make them sound offended that Google would ever mislead them, but doesn't the company need to maintain at least a slightly adversarial relationship with the people who try to manipulate the search results?

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