Who Are Google Quality Raters?

PotPieGirl wrote an excellent post named Google Raters : Who Are They?

The post examines the an open discussion forum where these Google Quality Raters hangout and ask questions about their daily tasks.

In summary, here findings include:

• Google Quality Raters are hired via Lionbridge, Leapforce and Butler Hill and not Google.
• They take a two part exam to qualify
• The pay isn't bad but the work isn't consistent ($12 – $15 per hour & 10-20 hours per week)
• Google has raters for about 8 years
• They rate search results (but don't have to see the landing page to rate)
• They are required to rate 30 per hour
• Do ratings by these raters impact search quality directly?

I am told by some other Quality Raters that not everything written in this document is legit. I did not get into specifics yet nor did I verify they are really quality raters. In any event, reading it really cannot hurt.

Forum discussion at Google +.

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