You’re also giving Google feedback when you click a search result link. Presumably that should be a huge signal for measuring search quality.

Heck, Google even promoted the `ping`[0] anchor attribute feature so they can log what link you click without slowing you down. (Firefox doesn’t support ping, which means when Firefox users click on a Google search result link they’re sent to an internal google.com URL first and then redirected for logging purposes)

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLAnchorE...