>and that the only viable weapon at the moment for human on human spamming (this is where real humans are working for 5 cents a page to write web pages that dra

>and that the only viable weapon at the moment for human on human spamming (this is where real humans are working for 5 cents a page to write web pages that draw hits) is human judgement. You are aware that Google hires thousands of search engine quality raters, all over the world right? But rather than directly curating, i suspect they just use these humans to train their algorithms. There is likely some inductive step going on, in selecting which algorithm (or 'sort' of the web) is selected, and then filtered by keywords. Secondly, most search engines, actually do also use end-user curation. I have funky enough search queries, that I often get google redirects as search results: they want to know (and record) which link i pick. Also, because of all the google-adds-cookies, google-analytics-cookies, etc, they likely have 'session-bags' full of destination links and search queries that happen to correlate. For me personally, neither search engine did very good in this test. But that's likely because neither result set is personalized in this test. And i don't know, if Bing does that now, but even if it does, for me to switch to another search engine, means to train another search engine in my contextual world. Hell, i even notice difference in result sets in Google based on my operating system. I get different results in Linux, than i do on my iPad. People that get a lot of spam in search results, really ought to login, and stop clicking those links.