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Twitter puts real humans into its search algorithm...and profits

2013-01-09 05:41:30| CNET News.com

In a dense engineering post, Twitter explains how it uses "crowdsourced" human evaluators to make sense of ephemeral hashtags and other search terms. And who benefits? Why, Twitter's advertisers, of course. [Read more]

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