@Stupid 190707 wrote:
Gibberish!
Where is this quote coming from? I have not seen a press release by Google saying anything of sort. Google just laid off 10,000 “contractors”, do you think they will hire the thousands needed to hand-pick search results?!?
Plus the whole motion of replacing a mechanized process (the algo) with human labor it’s counter-priductive and very costly. Heck, Google doesn’t even handpick it’s directory
Not gibberish at all. It was revealed a couple of years ago, been backed up by people from Google and discussed over and over on SEO forums ever since. There was even a leak of a document that Google hands to researchers with guidance notes quite some time back which I think is how it came to light initially.
EDIT: Just dug this up: http://www.pandia.com/sew/585-peter-norvig.html