Bill Hartzer said he spoke to Google’s Matt Cutts at SES San Francisco a couple weeks ago, where he asked Matt if Google used Chrome browser data for search ranking or quality purposes. Matt told Bill that Google does not use Chrome data for search ranking or quality purposes.

Bill posted this in a WebmasterWorld thread saying:

There has been a lot of talk about Google using data from toolbars and others and Google has gone on the record about not using it. But despite that, SEOs do not believe Google.

In a recent poll we ran, most SEOs feel Google does share data from department to department to improve search quality and rankings – despite what Google says.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.