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Google hires thousands of humans to rank search results manually

Google hires thousands of humans to rank search results manually
  • Posted November 27, 2012, 6:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in The Web, Industry News
  • Anyone who thinks Google's results are solely the product of fancy-pants algorithms and clever engineering -- think again. The Register has taken a look into Google's 160-page guidebook which is essentially a reference manual for human "raters" -- yep, that's…

Google tweaks algorithm to thwart keyword stuffing and link schemes

Google tweaks algorithm to thwart keyword stuffing and link schemes
  • Posted April 25, 2012, 1:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News, The Web
  • In an effort to penalize evil webspammers and reward those who utilize their SEO powers for good, Google announced that it will be adding new anti-webspam measures to its search algorithm. The changes are expected to roll out over the…

Study: 51% of Internet traffic is from bots, 31% is harmful

Study: 51% of Internet traffic is from bots, 31% is harmful
  • Posted March 16, 2012, 8:00 AM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in The Web
  • According to research by Incapsula, approximately half of all Web traffic stems from automated sources. The outfit determined that humans only represent about 49% of traffic, while the remaining chunk is derived from bots. Of that bot-related traffic, 20% stems…

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