Is SearchWiki or Analytics data used for ranking?

We’ve got a question from Boston. Micahn asks “Is Google aggregating Search Wiki data with Analytics for ranking?”

No. I’ve said before that my team; the web spam team will not go over and ask the analytics team for data so we don’t get any feed from the analytics team and we’ve said that we are currently not using SearchWiki data. Is it possible then in the future we might, may be, but at least right now if you are spinning it up all day everyday voting up or submitting your URLs in SearchWiki you are basically wasting your time. We are not using that data right now. And if we ever did use that data we’d be very cautious about how we used it such that we try to prevent any sort of abuse. So instead, better to make great sites, get lots of visitors, build lots of buzz and that’s a great way forward and you don’t have to worry about SearchWiki data or anything like that.

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