I’ll make about $700 this month for evaluating Google’s search engine. And Yahoo’s search engine. And Bing’s. And the best part? Most of it is done while sitting at home in my pajamas. What am I doing? Let me explain… Search engines use complicated algorithms to determine the results you see. For example, if you type “Steve Gillman” into a Google search box a half-million possibly-relevant web pages will be narrowed down using various criteria until a second later you see my smiling face. You’ll also see links to my personal website, my blog on the Huffington Post, and LinkedIn profiles for a bunch of guys who share my name. But the search engines don’t always get it right… They are full of errors, so they need real humans to look at the results and judge them for quality, relevancy, and usefulness. Then they can take this human input and design better search algorithms, ones that will even know “bieb jail” means the searcher wants to see mug shots of J...
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