[hedora]

That's how Google search worked back when it was at its most useful. They had a large "editorial team" that manually tweaked page ranks on a site-by-site basis.

The core graph reputation based page ranking algorithm lasted for a hot second before people started gaming it. No idea what they do these days.

[sarchertech]

Yeah but you can farm that out very cheap, and I don’t think they were even manually reviewing more than a small fraction of sites.

If you’re hiring experts to manually rank programming libraries, that’s a much more expensive position.