B
Evidence Grade B
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under review
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Current
38%
38% -- click through rate lift for Google News recommendations (2026)
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Evidence graded
Value
38%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
Entity
Geography
Global
Evidence Quality
B
Strong, reliable evidence
Sourced from a well-regarded research firm or industry leader with transparent methodology and a reasonably large sample.
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Score breakdown
Extraction
50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Google
Primary
Tier C
https://www.xenonstack.com/blog/geospatial-analytics-presto-hive ↗
Source Article
Geospatial Analytics using Presto and Hive
Original Research
Google
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Methodology
Vendor tech blog claims Google's recommender system increased click-through rate of news recommendations by up to 38%. No original study, date, or methodology is cited in the source; the article provides no publication date, so collection year is used as vintage. Likely derived from Google's Google News personalization research.
Methodology documented
Segmentation
IndustryMedia
RegionGlobal
Channelinfluencer
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Google News recommendations: 38% click through rate lift. Source: Google (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/google-news-recommendation-ctr-lift-38
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/google-news-recommendation-ctr-lift-38" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>38%</strong> -- click through rate lift for Google News recommendations<br><small>Source: Google (2026) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/google-news-recommendation-ctr-lift-38" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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