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I saw this by way of SearchEngineJournal which was referring to this blog post on Hank van Ess’ SearchBistro blog. Seems like Google is hiring temporary “Quality Raters” as seen in this ad in MonsterBoard.

These jobs have to do with checking the quality of search results to make sure that they are relevant. This should help reduce the amount of search engine spam. So for those who are putting up keyword-rich pages without real content, beware!

Also on the SearchEngineJournal page, there’s a bright yello arrow pointing to the Adsense block - notice that? I’ve seen that on their pages for some time now. I heard that Google doesn’t allow that. It’s a subtle way of bringing more attention to the Adsense ads to induce clicks. Sort of like telling people to “click on the ads below”. Well, we’ll let Google be the judge of that.

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