Insatiably curious blogger PotPieGirl stumbled upon an indexed copy of Google’s training manual for human URL quality raters in October. The 120+ page guide was more a reinforcement of search engine optimization (SEO) best practices than an earth...
PotPieGirl, the blogger who found the original manual, did some more digging to learn more about who these people are and how they are hired by outside companies to work on contract. Last month, we wrote about how Google’s human search quality...
In a strange twist of fate, PotPieGirl found Google’s training manual for human URL quality raters by simply doing a Google search. Google ran over 20,000 experiments in 2010 to come up with the 500 modifications they felt best improved search...