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Re:Why has examine.com disappeared from search results? by luckylion on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @01:52AM (#20683139)
> That doesnt mean they dont carefully craft the algorithm to return a relevant top result.

I found https://medium.com/@mikewacker/googles-manual-interventions-... an interesting read on that topic. It's not just a crafted algorithm, but there are different algorithms and employees choose different algorithms for some queries if they/journalists dislike what the original algorithm considered most relevant.

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Re:Why has examine.com disappeared from search results? by ceejayoz on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @09:54AM (#20685823)
I mean, that's how you'd train the main algorithm, right?

I'd fully expect to see these interventions fed back into the algorithm so Google can better predict "this search term is likely to be targeted by partisan or otherwise suspiciously motivated actors".

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