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Google Outlines the Role of Its Human Evaluators
An anonymous reader writes "For many years, Google, on its Explanation of Our Search Results page, claimed that 'a site's ranking in Google's search results is automatically determined by computer algorithms using thousands of factors to calculate a page's relevance to a given query.' Then in May of 2007, that statement changed: 'A site's ranking in Google's search results relies heavily on computer algorithms using thousands of factors to calculate a page's relevance to a given query.' What happened? Google's core search team explain."
Google, for example, employs a vast team of human search "Quality Raters" ... Spread out around the world, these evaluators, mostly college students, review search returns ....
Well, THAT explains a lot of what happens when you set 'safe search' to 'off'...
How do the human evaluators compare to the pigeons they used before?
It's a lot like Slashdot's mod system.
Oh, God, I hope not! Searching for jokes, you'll wind up with completely humorless results. Completely irrelevant pages will end up getting to the top of search results because they were "insightful" or "informative", despite being completely offtopic. All anti-Microsoft, anti-Apple and anti-Linux pages will be completely buried in the search results. And searching for "Apple" or "Linux" will result and you'll wind up with in a bunch of fanboy pages....wait a minute (searches Google)....ARRRGGHHHH! The Slashdot Mods have TAKEN OVER!!!! Ummm....ahem....
I, for one, welcome our new humorless Apple, Linux and Microsoft fanboy overlords!
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I thought Soylent Green is people.
PageRank is People!!!
Bruno Costa
You are most gracious. Now if you'll excuse me, I have Google searches to fix.
if only they taught you how to use paragraph breaks