larryhatch - 7:57 am on Jun 6, 2005 (gmt 0)

I really like the human-reviewer angle. Google could hire a lot of cheap brains by using college kids.
For them, its beer and pizza money at least; maybe twice as much as flipping burgers and less boring.

Think of all the crappy keyword-stuffed sites crowding the SERPS, just for one abusive example.
Did the famous algorithms find them out? Apparently not. Some of them at least found ways to
game the system. One half-awake English major would spot such a site in an instant.

Suppose a highly rated site has 100s or 1000s of outgoing links, all 302 redirects, and no real
original content of its own. The engines may smile on it, but the kids could catch it.

Lets say the kids find thousands of crap sites (that shouldn't take terribly long (chuckle!) )
Each stinkeroo gets tagged into a junk-pile. THEN the algorithm writers can find out what factors
the junk sites have in common, and refine their tools. The rest happens with electronic speed ..

Possible collateral damage aside for now, if there is a downside to this, I don't see it yet. -Larry