Google's anti-scraping analyst hire linked to scraper-inflated Search Console impression data
lilyraynyc · x · 2026-10-15
Google is hiring an "anti-scraping engineering analyst" to analyze search traffic, identify SERP scraper patterns, and build new anti-scraping models with engineering teams — a year-old posting being resurfaced in SEO circles.
Context: many SEO tool companies massively crawl Google results for rank tracking, and growing suspicion backed by Search Console data holds that this scraping inflated official keyword impression data — possibly explaining why Search Console makes AI Search look like a traffic non-factor while Google's internal numbers differ. The piece also recounts how SEOs once gamed Yahoo Overture keyword volumes with fake queries.
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