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Is Google leaking referer HTTP fields? I just saw this line in Timblog’s referer log:

https://www.google.com/evaluation/search/rating/task-edit?task=43299718

Trying to access the page was fruitless, and so was trying to access https://www.google.com/evaluation/search/rating/ and https://www.google.com/evaluation/search/: both resulted in a simple page saying nothing but “Not Found Error 404″. I tried yet another level down — https://www.google.com/evaluation/ gave me a 403 forbidden error:

Forbidden

The user XXXXXX@XXXX.XX is not a member of EWOQ. Please contact the ratingprojects@google.com for access.

My Google account’s email address was there. I’ve got no idea about what this is. At least that Google worker (?) was using Firefox.

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Posted November 24, 2006 in Miscellaneous.

5 Comments »

Great find! The URL doesn’t match anything else i’ve seen before about eval.google.com and we now have a different approach to seek more info about the infamous Evaluation projects on Google’s secret labs. Hope you can enlighten us with more data soon enough.

Comment by JosueMedia — November 24, 2006 @ 10:40 am

JosueMedia: Thanks, but I’m afraid that this was nothing but a hollow stroke of luck. Also, several other sites seem to already have documented these secret labs.

Comment by Tim — November 24, 2006 @ 4:59 pm

i found the same link but hwta is this EWOQ.ANybody knows the full form

thx and regards

Ashish

Comment by Ashish Mohta — December 2, 2006 @ 4:58 am

Ashish: Apparently, it’s also known as Google Eval and Rater Google Hub. You might found more through googling.

Comment by Tim — December 2, 2006 @ 11:00 am

I’ve just been using WhosOn to monitor my websites and noticed someone from Michigan accessed one of my sites via the following URL:-

https://www.google.com/evaluation/search/rating/task-edit?task=45788849

Again, no access to the page was possible.

I wonder if the task ID is relevant to my site? Are they manually adjusting or balancing the results through new algo’s ???

Martin

Comment by Martin Parry — December 19, 2006 @ 4:07 pm