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Just for clarification - the outsource individuals I had heard about back in 2004-2006 were in the  EWOQ team. FYI: http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/006791.html I had thought that outsourcing the reviewing  had stopped though many years ago and the manual reviewing was done internally by GOOGLE now. The documents (PDFs and such) that I was sent tonight by these reviewers was dated 2012. They are very lengthy documents on what to look for and what to penalize for. My conversations with said reviewers were quite amazing. Their lack of knowledge on what to look for and what constituted gaming the system (GH / BH as opposed to natural links etc) was at  best laughable. It just bothers me that a company that is one of the largest on this planet cannot have a team in house that is continually trained on reviewing and tested regularly. Reviewing is important. It is necessary. It is critical for good search results. All I ask that it is done equally, fairly and by a company that is tested regularly for quality standards themselves and not commission based individuals. [falls off soap box - but then watches the Mayweather fight again :)] Carlos

I agree, Google is being even more vague than usual on this one. Funny that you mention the Journeyman link... I posted this question right before reading yours. I'll think you'll get a kick out of it. Same basic premise... WTF do we now? The answer is always the same though, in a couple of months we'll have enough research and analysis to have a good understanding of the update, at which point Google will change it again. Gotta love gettin paid to play a game