The origins of the Google data breach: detailed analysis and conclusions

Over the holidays in the US, some posts about Google's ranking data leak have been circulating online. The first leaks were reported by Rand Fishkin and later by Mike King. They focused on "confirming" the beliefs long accepted by Fishkin, but did not pay much attention to the context of the information and its real meaning.

“I think its clear its an external facing API for building a document warehouse as the name suggests”

🚀 The leaked document is linked to Google Cloud's public platform called Document AI Warehouse, which is used to analyze, organize, search and store data. This public documentation is called Document AI Warehouse overview. A Facebook post claims that the "leaked" data is an "internal version" of publicly visible Document AI Warehouse documentation. This is the context of this data.

• 📌 The original post on SparkToro does not say that the data comes from Google Search. He says the person who sent the data to Rand Fishkin made that statement.

🚀 Fishkin writes that he received an email from someone who claims to have access to a large leak of API documentation from Google Search. Fishkin does not confirm that the data has been verified by former Google employees as coming from Google Search. He writes that the person who sent the data made this statement.