Google's Secret Lab

Voelspriet writes "The mystery behind eval.google.com should be solved soon. It's a secret lab of Google. Real people, from all over the world, are paid to finetune the index of Google, reveals Searchbistro, a new weblog of the Dutch reporter Henk van Ess. A Flash-movie shows some screens of Google's 'Rater Hub', Full details about Eval.Google will be published later this week.

surprise ?

[cyberfunk2]

Is this really so surprising to people that google has a human feedback loop ?

Their pagerank system, while incredibly good, is not infalliable, and requires some checks and balances.

Did they ever say directly that they didnt use humans to check up on the system?

I dont really see what the big secret is here..

Google Rocks!

[coopaq]

Google I love you! Google! I want to have your babies! Gooooooogle!!!