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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.'"
"the older boss just wants it to work and is more prone to hit the "I'm feelin' lucky" button and trust what that tells them"
Do you have any references that bear this out, other than your imagination? Oh wait, you're from the younger generation, you think that because you thought it up, it must be true! Don't bother providing evidence, you don't need any.