Google Quality Guidelines Document

[grnidone]

I ask this because...

Was this document legitimately leaked?  Or was it leaked on purpose?

[Rumbas]

>So Google farms this out

Big time. We know a woman working for a Danish company who worked for them. She said they have plenty of quality raters in each country and they rate the same sites/serps, but never talk to each other or even know each other. Think there was a job description somewhere where they hired raters.

Afaik the raters have had a huge impact on Panda.

[ukgimp]

I would imagine is was AI based. Learning what was deemed quality and trying to make it part of the algo.

[anallawalla]

I have seen Google advertise for such raters in Australia some years ago.

[Smiley]

Here's a link to a working copy :

http://www.huomah.com/quality-rater-guidelines-2007.pdf

but its from 2007 so maybe a little out of date?

[robert_charlton]

The version I have is dated March 30, 2011.  I think the classifications of user intent as "Do-Know-Go" are well worth studying.