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Re:Amazon, Facebook and Google can all be beaten by smn1234 on Sunday November 19, 2017 @06:04AM (#15733369)
why doesn't google search implement downvoting / upvoting search results? I never understood this...

what if human judgement was better than the AI powering the results indexing, for particular keywords that don't seem to be machine learned well enough

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Re:Amazon, Facebook and Google can all be beaten by mooreds on Sunday November 19, 2017 @08:34AM (#15733814)
From waht I've read, they do implement voting of a kind, by measuring clicks (and considering that a 'vote') and time on the result page (if you immediately hit 'back' and click on another link, you obviously weren't satisfied).
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Re:Amazon, Facebook and Google can all be beaten by indiv0 on Sunday November 19, 2017 @09:55AM (#15734117)
If you think human judgement is going to deliver truly good content, then you either haven't been introduced to the concepts of "clickbait" and "the reddit frontpage".
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Re:Amazon, Facebook and Google can all be beaten by smn1234 on Sunday November 19, 2017 @10:49AM (#15734339)
Hacker News works just fine ?
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Re:Amazon, Facebook and Google can all be beaten by falcolas on Sunday November 19, 2017 @10:58AM (#15734379)
For incredibly specific topics. The number of topics which don't make it to the front page, or which are flagged off the front page, is pretty large.
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