Google wants to learn more about how companies use Google Webmaster Tools as well as how they manage content and infrastructure, and they are willing to come to you to do it.  Gary Illyes, a Google Webmaster Trends Analyst, has posted on Google+ looking for companies willing to have Google visit them as they go about their day.

Google wants to observe companies in Europe and North Africa for a couple of days, meeting with various team members working on online marketing, taking notes and asking questions.  They are also interested in companies whose sites are managed by agencies.  They are doing it to “create internal reports that we’ll use for improving our communication, support, and web-search related products like Webmaster Tools.”

They aren’t looking for sites of a specific size and say they are interested in sites both large and small.

What do you get out of it?  A chance to question (and hopefully grill!) Google about anything, and they will do the best to answer it… within reason.  So no, you aren’t going to get the date of the next Penguin update or how to get away with paid links 🙂

If you are interested, Google has a form here.

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