There’s been a significant amount of speculation about the motives behind Google’s firing of Appen, the company that provides Search Quality Raters, with many expressing this may be the dawn of a new era of AI search quality raters. The facts however are clear about the meaning behind these...
Google has confirmed that issue where sites would rank during the week and then not rank on the weekends - just wild. We had an unconfirmed Google ranking update this week after having a calm weekend. Google has dropped Appen, one of its largest sources for search quality raters. Google’s...
Appen announced that its services with Google will end on March 19, 2024. The company provided search engine evaluations/quality raters. Google terminated its contract with Appen, ending its services with the company on March 19, 2024. The company has assisted Google with search engine...
Google has updated the Google search quality raters guidelines and it is now only 168 pages, down from 176 pages - so it takes less time to read. I scanned through the changes and I did not see any massive changes like with the December 15, 2022 update.Google said, "None of these involve...
Google has prioritized rating chatbot prompt responses above rating the quality of search results, at least for some of its contract workers, since January, Insider reports. Why we care. Google is clearly committing a lot of resources to Bard and other AI initiatives right now. Search...
