kaled - 12:19 pm on Jun 7, 2005 (gmt 0)

Plenty of people have posted suggestions that Google should review results manually. It comes as no surprise to me that they do just that.

For those that think it's a possible source of corruption - I doubt it. Presumbly, agents have to fill in questionaires on how good the results are overall for certain searches. If they make specific spam reports, presumably the sites are reviewed before being delisted, or whatever.

The only story here is that Google got caught doing something sensible. Many organisations (e.g. governments) consider it wise to keep certain operations secret, but we all know that these operations go on even if we don't have any knowledge of the details.

Of course, if Google wanted to keep this secret, they should not have allowed eval.google.com to appear in logs.

Kaled.