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(Unverified)Aug 1st 2007 5:07AM

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"At the SMX Conference in June 2007, Google software engineer Matt Cutts explained that while he supports different approaches to search, like Mahalo, it is untrue that humans have nothing to do with Google's search results. As examples of human involvement he cited Google's use of hyperlink analysis, toolbar voting, and user reporting of spam. Cutts suggested that Google would evolve to take advantage of social media. - wikipedia"

This approach from Google seems better than the "human-edited" part of wiki search, that would only slow down the development of the search engine rather than helping.

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