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Comment by sarchertech

17 hours ago

That sounds too expensive to be viable when the giveaway phase ends.

That's how Google search worked back when it was at its most useful. They had a large "editorial team" that manually tweaked page ranks on a site-by-site basis.

The core graph reputation based page ranking algorithm lasted for a hot second before people started gaming it. No idea what they do these days.

  • Yeah but you can farm that out very cheap, and I don’t think they were even manually reviewing more than a small fraction of sites.

    If you’re hiring experts to manually rank programming libraries, that’s a much more expensive position.