How would you pick the options by hand? This way you would introduce the thought and point of view bias of the people working at Google to the results. Additionally how would you pick who is the winner? For example how would you compare a technology article is more correct coming from various sources? They also have their own bias introduced to their content.
>This way you would introduce the thought and point of view bias of the people working at Google to the results.
Correct. I would do that.
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>They also have their own bias introduced to their content.
Yes. Good.
I'm not necessarily saying they hand pick the best article for every single story. Although techmeme.com and hn do that to an extent, when they notice a better version of an article, they replace the top link with the better version.
