Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Google and the Evolution of Search I: Human Evaluators
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.” A slight adjustment in wording, but an important comment on the supremacy of the algorithm that Google had touted for years.
