Google: Word Count Is Not A Ranking Factor

Google's John Mueller said in a Reddit thread that Google does not use word count as a ranking factor. He wrote "Word count is not a ranking factor." I mean, this is literally short and to the point and I am not sure how many ways you can look at this and interpret this a different way?

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