Eval.google.com is one of Google’s best kept secrets, There are many theories floating about this website, some people claimed that it is some kind of the secret google evaluation lab!
Searchbistro claims that It’s a lab of humans from all over the world, They are paid to check search results of Google every day. Most of the employees, called international agents by Google, were recruited through universities all over the world. The aim is to avoid spam, to get the right sites at the top of the listing and to test new features, not shown to the public yet.
Some people have also noticed Google referrals from search strings that look like: https://www.google.com/evaluation/search/rating/task-edit?task=XXXXXX
This comes from Google’s http://eval.google.com/
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Posted on December 1, 2006
When I tried to visit the last link, it return me with
“The user thilak123 [at] gmail.com is not a member of EWOQ. Please contact the ratingprojects@google.com for access.”