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One other thought is that most algorithms don't need to be very sophisticated.

So DuckDuckGo is (mostly) predicated on the idea that if you type "mens running shoes" into a search box you can confidently sell ads for trainers all day, and possibly other sporty goods. The bet Gabriel Weinberg is making is that the accuracy / profit for selling those ads is not significantly worse than using the text plus a thousand data points about that persons pregnant daughter and bathroom habits. Inwoukd love to see some study on that (not sure how - maybe have google return duckduckgo results and see what they buy. Hell I would bet they have already done this !)

Anyway I suspect that I would get as much out of twitter if I just get what David Attenborough reads on twitter (ie a manual curation from someone interesting and well versed in the world)

Sometimes the best algorithm is a much more educated and experienced human