alt.hn

6/7/2026 at 12:04:53 PM

Google just made you a search quality rater. You won't get paid

 https://mojodojo.io/blog/google-just-made-you-a-search-quality-rater-you-won-t-get-paid

by zenincognito

6/7/2026 at 8:25:18 PM

Knew this was an SEO company even before clicking the article. They are the only people who looks at a search page and see dollar signs.

By this logic, when I submit bug report to Apple "I'm now an Apple QA. And I won't get paid for it"

by bitpush

6/7/2026 at 9:29:33 PM

I mean it's not terrible logic for large companies that foist a large amount of QA on their customers rather than do it themselves.

by pixl97

6/8/2026 at 3:54:51 AM

Especially with a large customer base.

Rotate new features across 0.01% of the user base to conscript them into being QAs.

Telemetry probably even means the user doesn’t have to submit a report…

by BobbyTables2

6/7/2026 at 5:20:07 PM

Hmm, but weren't you already rating websites by clicking on the search results before? I don't see how that changes the game - and I must admit I don't know much about SEO - but in my view we were always rating results and that was influencing the position. Now they make the linking obsolete or at least less important signal... that's good? It means that relevant content is going to be surfaced to the top. Win-win honestly (and yes, Google will continue to use users-generated signals to drive their revenue like they always have).

by suralind

6/8/2026 at 2:21:22 AM

>weren't you already rating websites by clicking on the search results before?

not if you use one of those userscripts/adblockers killing google pingbacks

by rasz

6/7/2026 at 8:47:20 PM

One question that I ask is if Google Search is still a search engine, and if it should be considered as one.

If people are going on Google to search and end up in a chat with an LLM, isn't that defrauding the user?

Of course, a LLM can answer a query, but if a user wants to chat to find an answer they can do it.

Doesn't this make a stronger case for chrome to spin off away from Google?

by libertine

6/8/2026 at 3:55:32 AM

A LLM is a search engine…

by BobbyTables2

6/7/2026 at 7:26:51 PM

You're also not paying to search on Google.

by the-grump

6/7/2026 at 12:25:54 PM

Thumbs up/ preferred sources were always a thing. this is them just stepping into a new world of sharpening those edges. I do agree with your broader point that we are about to enter deep echo chamber of AI hallucinations being stated as facts.

by romania1

6/7/2026 at 8:28:21 PM

‘Rater’ is useful slang, but it’s a lot more meaningful in the historical context of Google when considered as an abbreviation of ‘curator’.

by altairprime

6/7/2026 at 8:35:17 PM

Then just make an extension to manipulate this, ad nauseam already exists for ads

by b3ing

6/7/2026 at 8:48:19 PM

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by delduca

6/8/2026 at 3:06:07 PM

So if google does not pay me for rating, google is the product?

by polyamid23