Tag Archives: Quality

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google’s new JPEG image encoder offers higher quality and saves on size and bandwidth – GSMArena.com news  GSMArena.com Source link

Microsoft reportedly tried to sell Bing to Apple in 2018 – but failed. The sale was unsuccessful because Apple had concerns about Bing’s search quality, advertising unit and monetization capabilities, according to a document in Google’s antitrust case against the U.S. Justice Department. Google argues that the failed sale highlights that Bing lost out because it is an inferior search engine, not because Google has made the search market unfair for its competitors, per CNN.

Business By Thomas Barrabi Published Jan. 22, 2024, 11:24 a.m. ET The quality of Google’s search engine results has “gotten worse” due to rampant spam, according to a study out of Germany. The findings were based on a year-long analysis of 7,392 product review queries — such as “best headphones” and “best alphabet toys” — on Google, Bing and DuckDuckGo, according to experts at Leipzig University, Bauhaus-University Weimar and the… Source link

Appen, an Australian data services company that Google contracted with for a large number of its third-party search quality raters, was notified by Google that its contract is ending on March 19, 2024. Appen said it had no prior notice and the cancellation would result in a loss of $82.8m of revenue at a gross margin of 26% for the company. What search quality raters do. Google’s quality raters assess the quality of the Google search results. They do not directly influence the search… Source link

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 evaluations and quality ratings. Google’s contract made up 26% of… Source link

TEL AVIV, Israel — One tunnel in the Gaza Strip was wide enough for a top Hamas official to drive a car inside. Another stretched nearly three football fields long and was hidden beneath a hospital. Under the house of a senior Hamas commander, the Israeli military found a spiral staircase leading to a tunnel approximately seven stories deep. These details and new information about the tunnels, some made public by the Israeli military and documented by video and photographs, underscore why… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google executive defends search quality in US antitrust trial, knocks Bing  New York Post Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Canadian wildfire smoke triggers ‘hazardous’ air quality alerts in U.S.: Live updates  Yahoo News Source link

Some Google contractors that rate the quality of search results are getting as much as a 45% pay increase. Getty Images The wage increase is welcome, but workers complain they are still making less than Google’s other contractors. Thousands of Google contractors, who rate the quality of search results, have gotten hourly raises for the first time ever, after months of protesting to the tech giant about receiving “poverty wages” for their work in maintaining the company’s most iconic… Source link

Google has made significant changes to its Quality Rater Guidelines (QRG) for search. While Google updates this document several times per year, the latest version, updated today, came with notable changes to the structure of the document, with many new sections and tables added and a total of 11 new pages worth of content.  While there are dozens of important details about what changed, arguably the most important change was the introduction of… Source link