Google Search Quality Raters Guidelines Updated – Search Engine Roundtable
On Thursday, January 23rd, Google updated its search quality raters guidelines PDF document. The last time Google updated this document was for the March 2024 spam update changes, over ten months ago. This update seems to focus on on spam and adds some additional details.
The document was expanded from 170 pages to 181 pages.
What Changed
Google posted these items in the change log:
- Updated Page Quality Lowest and Low sections to better align with Google Search Web Spam Policies; added illustrative examples
- Expanded guidance on assessing minor interpretations and intents for Needs Met ratings and added illustrative examples
- Minor changes throughout (updated rating ranges, removed outdated examples; fixed typos; updated browser requirements; etc.)
This update also refreshes some language for clarity and provides additional useful examples to help raters.
Previous Search Quality Rater Guidelines
Here are the previous versions of the search quality rater guidelines, if you want to…
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