Paying attention to what users are doing helps improve the real-time, ad-hoc access to the data by improving relevance and search results.

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Second, the requirement that a change be applied uniformly would mean that a change to one search ranking could require other changes that Google might prefer not to make, which would discourage some ad hoc changes.

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