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Will Algorithms Make Human Editors Obselete? Not If Journalists Collaborate

by Scott Karp October 9th, 2008

That's the brilliance of Google - it's actually driven by human judgment, by the judgment that someone producing a website makes every time they link to something. Rather than replacing human judgment, Google is actually co-opting it. But Google isn't co-opting the judgment of most journalists and news orgs - because so many of them still don't link to anything. (Notable exceptions notwithstanding.)