You don't see Google on first page of search results by googling “search engine”

Re:You don't see Google on first page of search results by g... by wfunction on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @09:22PM (#13324178)

It's not obvious to me what the difference is between "manual" modification as opposed to "automated" modification. Surely all of them rely on looking at the search terms in an automated fashion and then deciding (or rather, weighing) what to return?

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Re:You don't see Google on first page of search results by g... by cgriswald on Thursday January 05, 2017 @03:09AM (#13325573)

It's obvious to me. If Google changes the results of a search for "bounce" to include all the letters bouncing on the page, I can be pretty certain this was the one-time decision of a human being rather than something that was automated and, for lack of a better term, accidental.

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Re:You don't see Google on first page of search results by g... by wfunction on Thursday January 05, 2017 @03:19AM (#13325612)

I didn't say obvious cases are nonexistent. I merely said not all cases are obvious (and the non-obvious fraction is not negligible).

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