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why_only_15 on Aug 16, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Web by Google (TM)

Why can't other search engines just hook into those same signals though?

dmitriid on Aug 16, 2020 [–]

Because they don't have the traffic/market share to do that. And it's not just search. Every single Google property ultimately feeds into Google's search engine.

why_only_15 on Aug 16, 2020 | [–]

The traffic and market share shouldn't matter if these are SEO signals inside the application itself, like in the HTML. Those are independent from traffic.

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