lucy24 - 1:11 am on Jan 10, 2013 (gmt 0)

Not only that but Google is tracking individuals in order to optimize results on a user by user basis

Yah, but they're not using humans to do it. Unless they've discovered that outsourcing to {insert country name} is cheaper than doing it by computer. So all those weirdnesses we've been ascribing to Computer Glitch are really Non-Native-Speaker Misunderstanding.

Soylent Search eh. Personally I was impressed by the Mechanical Turk reference.

Q.: What percentage of Twitter users would respond to both phrases with "Huh?" or equivalent?

Inevitable corollary Q.: What percentage of WebmasterWorld readers ... et cetera, as above ;)