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In particular, https://hexdocs.pm/google_api_content_warehouse/0.4.0/Google...

Notably, for people on HN, it looks like there is indeed an internal initiative to promote small personal blogs :-)

> smallPersonalSite (type: number(), default: nil) - Score of small personal site promotion go/promoting-personal-blogs-v1

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Well, maybe. It's a factor that a twiddler can influence, but we don't know if that's done positively or negatively. It might also be more conditional, like for specific types of queries.

For example, a small, personal blog might be great for solving a specific technical problem ("my dishwasher of model XXX has YYY problem"), but might be terrible for something like giving public health advice.

We don’t know whether that particular module was used to promote or downgrade small sites in the SERPs.

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