Yes, it is a practice that is no longer found in any of the major search engines.
Do we pay for search? nope. we aren’t the customers. the product they are selling is advertising.
Sorry I should have explained why it was an impossible task, it isn’t possible through manual human effort, period, because all the human effort from all the humans that ever existed and ever will exist isn’t enough to accomplish computational tasks regularly performed. While some computational tasks are manually impossible because of their scope to execute some tasks are impossible simple because they require feats beyond human ability. The content of the internet changes faster and is greater then humans could manually index, it is a task of impossible scope.
what? which specific algorithm failed? In which way?
they are just math
Human systems like you propose are still systems and are more gamable and less auditable. Humans created machines to accomplish these tasks more accurately for a reason. Human systems still use algorithms even if not formally defined. Maybe you don’t understand what an algorithm actually is.
wait what? if “experts” are quoting Ads from search results to congress in isn’t the fault of algorithms, you are maligning math for human idiocy that is completely unrelated to it.
