Google Outlines the Role of Its Human Evaluators 62
An anonymous reader writes "For many years, Google, on its Explanation of Our Search Results page, claimed that 'a site's ranking in Google's search results is automatically determined by computer algorithms using thousands of factors to calculate a page's relevance to a given query.' Then in May of 2007, that statement changed: 'A site's ranking in Google's search results relies heavily on computer algorithms using thousands of factors to calculate a page's relevance to a given query.' What happened? Google's core search team explain."
But for how long? (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Google is PEOPLE (Score:3, Interesting)
Fuzzy logic is killing Google (Score:5, Interesting)
Slightly off-topic: Am I the only one who finds Google web search less and less useful? There's no way to really force literal search anymore. Everything I enter gets auto-"corrected". Plus signs, quotation marks or that misleading field "this exact wording or phrase" in Advanced Search used to help, but that stopped working a while ago. Everything is fuzzified now. Is there an alternative or some trick I haven't heard of?
Re:Fuzzy logic is killing Google (Score:3, Interesting)
Everything is fuzzified now
First off, I don't think fuzzy logic has anything to do with Google's innards. What you're referring to is more generally called word sense disambiguation, and as far as I know, you can force a literal search by putting it in quotes. You'll also get "fuzzy" results, but if you don't see your literal at the top of the results, it probably doesn't exist and I'm guessing the Goog is trying to be helpful by breaking up the terms. Of course, you could Bing it to verify... :)