About six years ago, Google published a behind the scenes video of what goes on in an internal search quality meeting. Now, CNBC published an article after being invited to sit in on one of these meetings this past month. It seems to me, outside of some big names, the meeting structure and format has not changed much in the past six years.

Here is what was described by CNBC about this recent meeting:

If you watch the meeting video from six years ago, it feels like it has been run the same way since then:

Of course, people like Amit Singhal and Matt Cutts are no longer at Google. But Panda Nayak, who was on Amit’s right side is now leading up these meetings. I believe Paul Haahr is still at the meetings and so is Ben Gomes.

But data is what leads the meetings for the past several years and data will probably lead these meetings going forward for the next several years.

It is just interesting to see from that article that it SEEMS that not much has changed with these meetings, at least on how it is run, for the past several years. Of course, It would be super interesting to see another video capture a more recent meeting.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

Note: This story was pre-written and scheduled to be posted now, I am currently offline for a holiday.