zomega42 - 6:13 pm on Aug 7, 2006 (gmt 0)

Yes, this will be used for nefarious purposes. But that doesn't mean even us whitehats can't learn something -- I for one will be very interested to see how the distribution of clicks depends on the serp rank (evidently the data includes the ranking of the link that was clicked).

If I already have reached position 6, is it worth 50 hours of my time to inch my way up to position 5 through link building, content tweaking, etc? Now that question can finally be answered.

Then again, that assumes somebody will find the data file, do the analysis, and tell me the results, which seems unlikely. Oh well.