Henk Van Ess has started off a new blog, Search Bistro, with a scoop he claims to have found: Google's evaluation labs. Henk says that one of his students at the University of Amsterdam was a participant in the Google Rater Hub, which pays people to rate the accuracy of Google search results in order to improve results and reduce spam. Henk links to a job posting looking for a Quality Rater for Google, mentioning the job tasks as help with work on a search quality evaluation and Candidates will evaluate search results and rate their relevance. Henk claims that the site is at eval.google.com (which is 404 if you aren't in the program) and has posted a Flash movie of it in action.

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