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>"What is the weight on those signals."

Low enough that it took Google nearly three engineers per successfully injected honeypot (7 honeypots per 20 engineers) and Google was only able to achieve a 7% success rate despite their extensive in-house knowledge of SEO.



I don't understand what you're trying to say here. The Google blog post says that they inserted 100 honeypots into Google. Then it says "within a couple weeks of starting this experiment, our inserted results started appearing in Bing."

Where are you getting the 7% number?


the more detailed searchengineland.com post mentioned that they only got 7-9 of the 100 nonsense terms they tried to inject to show up.



Three searches is nothing.




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