Google uses its search engine data and signals to help train its Gemini AI models, we learned from documents from the DOJ deposition testimony. Although, we kind of knew that when Google launched SGE, they told us they used Google Search’s core ranking systems to help identify high-quality sites (although, it didn’t seem like they did…).
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