Blekko introduce evaluarea umana a rezultatelor
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“There’s an entire industry to manipulate this giant corpus and put stuff on it,” Skrenta says. “If that’s the process, you can’t guarantee the quality of the search.”
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The Redwood Shores, CA-based startup also employs a Wikipedia-style model, where volunteers can apply to be curators in a given area. “They’re doing it because they’re subject experts,” Skrenta says. “When you start to pay people, it sort of corrupts the reason people do it. If you edit Wikipedia, it’s because you care about your reputation as a subject expert.” The main goal is to find knowledgeable curators who can give users high-quality results that they can trust.
The technological challenge of creating an algorithm and building a new search engine is massive, but adding in the additional element of human curation makes it even more complicated.
Search Engine Blekko Brings Human Evaluation to Search Results | Xconomy
