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To Search Smarter, Find a Person?
Svonkie writes "Brendan Koerner reports in Wired Magazine that a growing number of ventures are using people, rather than algorithms, to filter the Internet's wealth of information. These ventures have a common goal: to enhance the Web with the kind of critical thinking that's alien to software but that comes naturally to humans. 'The vogue for human curation reflects the growing frustration Net users have with the limits of algorithms. Unhelpful detritus often clutters search results, thanks to online publishers who have learned how to game the system.'"
...for food?
I saw it on Slashdot, it must be true!
"Insane Google-fu" can be put on my resume under "skills".
Google has been using this technology for years.
One of our competitors trademarked the term "hypothesis". From now on, we will call them "boneheaded ideas".