carnage4life , 
As a Google user it feels like terrible timing to be cutting costs by getting rid of the people who give feedback on whether search results are good or not.
It’s giving eating their seed corn.
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carnage4life , As a Google user it feels like terrible timing to be cutting costs by getting rid of the people who give feedback on whether search results are good or not.
It’s giving eating their seed corn.