Google: “There has been a shift in our thinking…”(counternotions.com)
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Google: “There has been a shift in our thinking…”
http://counternotions.com/2013/03/11/shifty/
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Scott Huffman is presenting Google's new direction, formulated by University of California law professor Eugene Volokh: http://www.volokh.com/2012/05/09/first-amendment-protection-...
Google must believe that the barrier to entry is now (only) brand awareness, rather than product (search) quality. Let's see whether that remains true forever.
PageRank also relied on "Human-curated content". In fact, anything having to do with natural language processing does so in some way.
This is a far cry from saying that Google is hand-tuning search results. In fact, Google has only begun to do so recently as a response to government-orders to hide terms relating to media piracy or Chinese politics. This post displays a lot of romantic confusion about the effects of social media on web search.