Comment by hedora
8 hours ago
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.