Google routinely hires ad quality raters who essentially work from home and help Google identify issues in search results pages. Wired cover this in detail: Google employs hundreds of people around the world to sit at their home computer and judge results for various queries, marking whether the tweaks return better or worse results than before.

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The latest logo on the Google China homepage (google.cn) points to some of the inventions that happened in China – Paper, Gun Powder, Printing and the Compass. Coming just a day after Google announced it may abandon China in the wake of hacker attacks and ongoing problems with censorship, the image raised questions.