But you do vote on search results. Google knows if you stay on a page or leave it quickly for another result. That's an implicit vote that they definitely take into account.
Having that explicit button might not really add any additional value.
Having that explicit button might not really add any additional value.
Especially for use cases like reviews where you are looking for multiple opinions.
The hard to navigate site full of waffle, and SEO duckspeak nonsense gets a positive while the site with clear concise information the user can absorb in 2s gets penalized.
So if they look at my behaviour the way you say, then the feedback they'd get from me would be that the top x-1 results are always bad, while the xth result is always good. That sounds like a poor algorithm for them, but it might explain why my Google results always suck.