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Re:Microsoft Edge is leaking the sites you visit to Bing by dafelst on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @10:46PM (#35709191)
They haven't said it, but they absolutely do it, or at least did about 7-8 years ago.

Source: used to chat with Google search engineers about web spam back in the day at conferences.

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Re:Microsoft Edge is leaking the sites you visit to Bing by xnx on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @12:19AM (#35709594)
“Google Analytics is not used in search quality in any way for our rankings.” -Matt Cutts (ex-Google) (2010) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgBw9tbAQhU
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Re:Microsoft Edge is leaking the sites you visit to Bing by dafelst on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @10:27AM (#35714157)
Ah yes, 13 year old information. Maybe it was true then, it is not now. Cutts had a known pattern of denying anything and everything about their ranking data until cornered (see his video with Harry Shum of Bing when they caught Bing stealing Google clicks), so I would recommend against using him as a source for almost anything these days.

Believe what you want, but apply some basic logic - why would they not use data they already have?

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