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I thought the management theory was to in-source your core-competencies and out-source everything else. Surely quality search results is one of Google's core competencies!
Definitely explains the quality of search as of late.
Maybe that's why the search "X reddit" is so popular - it's got a bit of that social validation.
Dumb question - why can't I just upvote and downvote pages, and Google enhances its ranking for me based on that? Maybe that's why the search "X reddit" is so popular - it's got a bit of that social validation.
Correct, SEO bots.
Another prime example of how ML and AI aren't mature. With all the data google collects, they have to rely on minimum wagers to "find" the best results.
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>laughing their full heads off every time they think about how there are people who do free work for Google who think they are making the world a better place or something. So when you go to a store that Google Maps says is open, and find it's closed, you refuse to correct the hours and go "MUHAHAHAHA...I refuse to help Google, take that , corporate scum!"
Why would I bother checking Google Maps? But basically, yeah. If Google wants my expertise and data collection ability, they can pay me for it. As it stands now they just cold call businesses and ask them with an AI thing.
Dumb question - why can't I just upvote and downvote pages, and Google enhances its ranking for me based on that? Maybe that's why the search "X reddit" is so popular - it's got a bit of that social validation.
How much should they be paid? It's not like you need a PhD to confirm if a search result sucks. Results are supposed to be good enough for the average user, so you need common sense and some on-job training to do a good job. And having 10 common-sense guys churning through user feedback @$11/h is better than 2 geniuses @$55/h. As one comment says, it probably beats fliping burgers.
They cannot rate all results anyway, so why not get the best possible evaluations?
Shouldn't quality data beat quantity if you extrapolate from the evaluated samples to the entire index?
Spammers target the lower part of the bell curve. If you let that part evaluate the quality of the results, do you think that they will recognize spam?
Dumb question - why can't I just upvote and downvote pages, and Google enhances its ranking for me based on that? Maybe that's why the search "X reddit" is so popular - it's got a bit of that social validation.
Who do you reckon would cast the most votes? Correct, SEO bots.