[dhimes]

The "your money or your life" web page stuff is interesting. They call these YMYL pages anything that can have large impact on the user: financial info pages, legal info pages, medical info pages, and so on. They say they have very high quality page rating standards for these pages. OK, but how?

Later in the document they talk about doing reputation research on the site. They say, "[F]or Page Quality rating, you must also look for outside, independent reputation information about the website."

So they are evaluating content. They are encouraging their reviewers to make a judgement. This strikes me as unreliable, maybe even a slippery slope for them.

[dazc]

From the announcement linked to below: (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10601232)

Ratings from evaluators do not determine individual site rankings, but are used help us understand our experiments. The evaluators base their ratings on guidelines we give them; the guidelines reflect what Google thinks search users want

[dhimes]

Ah so they probably have a specific set of sites that they check against. That makes sense- thanks.