Google is ... Soylent Green!
Submitted by yelvington on December 19, 2007 - 12:38pmSaul Hansell of the New York Times reveals that Google has people in its magic black box. Aha! The great mechanical brain turns out to be a mechanical Turk.
Saul Hansell of the New York Times reveals that Google has people in its magic black box. Aha! The great mechanical brain turns out to be a mechanical Turk.
From the Press Gazette, the UK's trade paper for journalists: Google's principal scientist Krishna Bharat describes how users are finding a broader slice of viewpoints through Google News:
I took some vacation last week and missed Steve Lohr's email asking me for comment on search optimization. Looking over the resulting New York Times story, "This boring headline is written for Google," a couple of things come to mind:
Last week I heard someone refer to "NCN nostalgia." Just before the dot-boom, a bunch of newspaper companies got together and imagined an online future in which newspapers would be key players through something called New Century Network, which would be the definitive news resource on the Internet.
It all fell apart amid corporate bickering, and the inability of big media companies to cooperate was rightly blamed. But there was something else at work: technology was evolving faster than anyone's business vision.