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Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Google hires thousands of humans to rank search results manually

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Anyone who thinks Google's results are solely the product of fancy-pants algorithms and clever engineering -- think again. The Register has taken a look into Google's 160-page guidebook which is essentially a reference manual for human "raters" -- yep, that's right: humans -- revealing a definite human component behind the results dished out by Google search.