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
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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
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Google has updated its search quality raters guidelines for the second time in 2022, only four and a half months since its last update in July 2022. This revised document has some substantial changes to E-A-T, by adding an extra E to E-A-T for “experience.” The document is now about nine-pages longer, adding up to 176 pages up from 167 pages in the previous version. Double-E-A-T. Yes, Google has added a letter to E-A-T, adding an extra E and… Source link
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